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- Consumer attitudes and perceptions towards chilled ready-to-eat foods: a multi-national studyPublication . Smigic, Nada; Ozilgen, Sibel; Gómez-López, Vicente M.; Osés, Sandra María; Miloradovic, Zorana; Aleksic, Biljana; Miocinovic, Jelena; Smole Možina, Sonja; Kunčič, Ajda; Guiné, Raquel; Goncalves, J. C.; Trafialek, Joanna; Czarniecka-Skubina, Ewa; Goel, Gunjan; Blazic, Marijana; Herljevic, Dora; Nikolić, Aleksandra; Mujčinović, Alen; Djekic, IlijaUnderstanding consumers’ behavior and their handling of high-risk foods at home is essential for reducing the number of foodborne illnesses. This study shows the results of a cross-national analysis of consumers’ perception from nine countries, and the identification of customers’ clusters and its characteristics in order to understand customers’ behavior, and to build safe chilled ready-to-eat (RTE) foods prevention strategies. The cluster analysis resulted in two clusters: (1) “Precautious consumers” characterized by the orientation towards pre-packed RTE foods, with consumers mainly coming from Bosnia and Herzegovina, India, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and Turkey. Their attitudes and self-reported practices may be categorized as less risky in terms of food-borne illnesses connected with the consumption of RTE foods; (2) “Unconcerned consumers” preferred cutting and slicing RTE foods freshly at the point of purchase, usually sold at the delicatessen department in a supermarket or at open markets. Those consumers mostly came from Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia and their attitudes and self-reported practices were riskier. These results allow a better understating of what characterizes consumers of RTE foods in different countries.
- Covid-19 pandemic effects on food safety - Multi-country survey studyPublication . Djekic, Ilija; Nikolić, Aleksandra; Uzunović, Mirza; Marijke, Aluwé; Liu, Aijun; Han, Jiqin; Brnčić, Mladen; Knežević, Nada; Papademas, Photis; Lemoniati, Katerina; Witte, Franziska; Terjung, Nino; Papageorgiou, Maria; Zinoviadou, Kyriaki G.; Dalle Zotte, Antonella; Pellattiero, Erika; Sołowiej, Bartosz G.; Guiné, Raquel; Correia, Paula; Sirbu, Alexandrina; Vasilescu, Liliana; Semenova, Anastasia A.; Kuznetsova, Oksana A.; Vrabič Brodnjak, Urška; Pateiro, Mirian; Lorenzo, Jose Manuel; Getya, Andriy; Kodak, Tetiana; Tomasevic, IgorThis study provides an important insight into the response of food safety systems during the first months of the pandemic, elevating the perspective of preventing Covid-19 within conventional food safety management systems. A multi-country survey was conducted in 16 countries involving 825 food companies. Based on the results of the survey, it is obvious that the level of maturity of a food safety system in place is the main trigger in classifying companies and their responses to the pandemic challenge. Staff awareness and hygiene are the two most important attributes in combating Covid-19, opposed to temperature checking of workers in food establishment and health protocols from the World Health Organization, recognized as attributes with limited salience and importance. Companies confirmed implementation of more restrictive hygiene procedures during the pandemic and the need for purchasing more additional personal protective equipment. Retailers were identified as the food supply chain link mostly affected by the pandemic opposed to food storage facilities ranked as least affected. During this challenging period, all companies declared that food safety has not been compromised at any moment. It is important to note that less than a half of the food companies had documented any emergency plans associated with pandemics and health issues in place.