SABIIA - Sistema Aberto e Integrado de Informação em Agricultura (Sabiia)

JACINTHO,Carolina Lôbo de Almeida Barros; JARDIM,Paulo César Brandão Veiga; SOUSA,Ana Luiza Lima; JARDIM,Thiago Souza Veiga; SOUZA,Weimar Kunz Sebba Barroso.

Abstract The difficulty in understanding food labels demands their reformulation. The objective was to elaborate a proposal of nutritional labeling and to compare its understanding with current labels. A cross-sectional study was conducted in 2016. Socioeconomic and health data were collected and questionnaires were used to evaluate reading and comprehension of the current label (Group A) and the proposed label (Group P). Student's t test and chi-square test (p <5%) were applied. A total of 980 consumers participated at supermarkets in a Brazilian capital, with 38.2 ± 13.9 years old, predominantly women, high school, family income of 2 to 4 minimum wages, without chronic disease, and Body Mass Index of 25,6 ± 4.7 kg/m2. Reading and comprehension were...

Brazilian food labeling: a new proposal and its impact on consumer understanding

Palavras-chave: Food labeling; Nutritional facts; Industrialized foods; Food.

Ano: 2020

URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-20612020000100222

JACINTHO,Carolina Lôbo de Almeida Barros; JARDIM,Paulo César Brandão Veiga; SOUSA,Ana Luiza Lima; JARDIM,Thiago Souza Veiga; SOUZA,Weimar Kunz Sebba Barroso.

Detection of genetically modified maize events in Brazilian maize-derived food products

Palavras-chave: Food labeling; Nutritional facts; Industrialized foods; Food.

Ano: 2019

URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-20612019005031130

Branquinho,Maria Regina; Gomes,Déborah Márcia Vasconcelos; Ferreira,Renata Trotta Barroso; Lawson-Ferreira,Rafael; Cardarelli-Leite,Paola.

The Brazilian government has approved many transgenic maize lines for commercialization and has established a threshold of 1% for food labeling, which underscores need for monitoring programs. Thirty four samples including flours and different types of nacho chips were analyzed by conventional and real-time PCR in 2011 and 2012. The events MON810, Bt11, and TC1507 were detected in most of the samples, and NK603 was present only in the samples analyzed in 2012. The authorized lines GA21, T25, and the unauthorized Bt176 were not detected. All positive samples in the qualitative tests collected in 2011 showed a transgenic content higher than 1%, and none of them was correctly labeled. Regarding the samples collected in 2012, all positive samples were...

Consumer attitudes toward information displayed at food buffets in commercial restaurants

Palavras-chave: GMO; Real-time PCR; Transgenic maize; Food labeling.

Ano: 2013

URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-20612013000300002

Barbieri,Tatiana; Rodrigues,Karina de Souza; Silva,Simone Ferreira da; Medeiros,Laissa Benites; Saccol,Ana Lúcia de Freitas.

This study aimed to evaluate the attitude of consumers towards information about dishes in a commercial restaurant. This research was conducted from January to April 2009 in a restaurant in the city of Santa Maria (RS), Brazil. Food information including the name of the dish, ingredients, health benefits and warnings, and calorie value was displayed. After providing this nutritional information, a questionnaire was applied to 300 consumers at the restaurant to observe their attitudes towards the food information. It was found that 10.57% of the respondents reported allergy or intolerance to some kinds of food and that 10.98% of the respondents reported having diseases that require moderate consumption and/or total restriction on the consumption of those...

ECOLABELS: THE LINK BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTAL PREFERENCES AND GREEN PRACTICES?

Palavras-chave: Nutritional information; Food and nutrition education; Food labeling.

Ano: 2012

URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-20612012000400024

Erickson, Audrae; Kramer, Carol S..

Market and Welfare Impacts of COOL on the U.S.-Mexican Tomato Trade

Palavras-chave: Ecolabels; Food labeling; Consumer preferences; Environmental Economics and Policy.

Ano: 1997

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25934

Johnecheck, Wendy A.; Wilde, Parke E.; Caswell, Julie A..

A two-country, comparative static partial equilibrium model is used to simulate the ex ante market and welfare outcomes of U.S. country-of-origin labeling for the U.S.-Mexico fresh tomato trade. In all scenarios where consumers show a relative preference for U.S. tomatoes, Mexican tomato exports decline and U.S. production increases. Mexican trade losses using low- to mid-range consumer preference assumptions are 14% to 32% of the value of Mexican tomato exports to the United States and 1% to 3% of the total value of agricultural produce exports, partially negating the market access gains of NAFTA. Consumer effects are small and sometimes negative. Producer impact is the big effect, with transfer from Mexican to U.S. tomato producers.

Tipo: Journal Article

Palavras-chave: Country-of-origin labeling; Food labeling; Trade-related food regulations; Welfare effects; Crop Production/Industries; International Relations/Trade.

Ano: 2010

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/99117

USING INFORMATIONAL LABELING TO INFLUENCE THE MARKET FOR QUALITY IN FOOD PRODUCTS

Caswell, Julie A.; Mojduszka, Eliza M..

In the United States, the federal government is increasingly using requirements for informational labeling on food products to influence 1) consumers' knowledge and purchasing patterns and 2) manufacturers' product offerings and marketing practices. We discuss the economic rationale behind these regulations and issues related to judging their success or failure.

Is Presentation Everything? Using Visual Presentation of Attributes in Discrete Choice Experiments to Measure the Relative Importance of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Beef Attributes

Palavras-chave: Food labeling; Food quality; Food safety; Information; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.

Ano: 1996

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25989

Umberger, Wendy J.; Mueller, Simone C..

A unique discrete choice experiment (DCE) is used to estimate the relative importance of quality attributes to Australian beef consumers. In the DCE, consumers choose their preferred beef steaks from options varying in a large number of intrinsic (marbling and fat trim) and extrinsic/credence (brand, health, forage, meat standards/quality, and production and process claims) attributes. This study is the only known DCE to present these attributes to consumers visually – in a manner that more realistically simulates the retail choice scenario for beef and allows us to evaluate the relative importance of attributes that consumers use both consciously and unconsciously when making product choices. Respondents’ beef choices were analyzed using a latent class...

The Economics of GM Food Labels: An Evaluation of Mandatory Labeling Proposals in India

Palavras-chave: Discrete choice experiment; Visual attribute presentation; Willingness to pay; Beef; Extrinsic attributes; Food labeling; Livestock Production/Industries; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies.

Ano: 2010

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61856

Bansal, Sangeeta; Ramaswami, Bharat.

Labeling of genetically modified (GM) foods is a contentious issue and internationally, there is sharp division whether such labeling ought to be mandatory. This debate has reached India where the government has proposed mandatory labeling. In this context, this paper evaluates the optimal regulatory approach to GM food labels. Mandatory labeling aims to provide greater information and correspondingly more informed consumer choice. However, even without such laws, markets have incentives to supply labeling. So can mandatory labeling achieve outcomes different from voluntary labeling? The paper shows that this is not the case in most situations. The paper goes on to explore the special set of circumstances, where mandatory labeling makes a difference to...

Are Consumers Indeed Misled? Congruency in Consumers' Attitudes towards Wine Labeling Information versus Revealed Preferences from a Choice Experiment

Palavras-chave: Genetically modified (GM) foods; Biosafety; Food labeling; India; Food Security and Poverty.

Ano: 2007

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42409

Mueller, Simone C.; Umberger, Wendy J..

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Nutrition Labeling in the Food-Away-From-Home Sector: An Economic Assessment

Palavras-chave: Discrete choice experiment vs. attitude measurement; Food labeling; Willingness to pay; Consumers; Wine; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Marketing.

Ano: 2010

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61331

Variyam, Jayachandran N..

Americans spent about 46 percent of their total food budget on food away from home in 2002, up from 27 percent in 1962. Such foods tend to be less nutritious and higher in calories than foods prepared at home, and some studies have linked eating away from home to overweight and obesity in adults and children. Current nutrition labeling law exempts much of the food-away-from-home sector from mandatory labeling regulations. Because consumers are less likely to be aware of the ingredients and nutrient content of away-from-home food than of foods prepared at home, public health advocates have called for mandatory nutrition labeling for major sources of food away from home, such as fast-food and chain restaurants. This report provides an economic assessment of...

Tipo: Report

Palavras-chave: Diet quality; Food labeling; Government regulation; Health; Mandatory disclosure; Nutrition information; Nutrition Labeling and Education Act; Obesity; Reformulation Acknowledgments; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.

Ano: 2005

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7235

Food Labels: Implications for U.S. Agricultural Imports

Henneberry, Shida Rastegari; Mutondo, Joao E..

Labels have been used to make food attributes transparent and to satisfy the increasing consumer demand for information about food credence values. Several types of prevalent U.S. food labels, their contributions, and the regulatory agencies behind them are examined in this paper. Additionally, studies dealing with the willingness-to-pay (WTP) for labeled products and the use of food labels as nontariff trade barriers are discussed. While unilateral labeling requirements are identified as a major form of non-tariff trade barriers, positive media influence and trust in the government and science are important factors that affect consumer WTP for food credence characteristics.

Tipo: Journal Article

Palavras-chave: Consumer willingness-to-pay; Food credence characteristics; Food labeling; Non-tariff trade barrier; Agribusiness; Consumer/Household Economics.

Ano: 2007

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/62296

Consumer attitudes towards sustainability attributes on food labels

Saunders, Caroline M.; Guenther, Meike; Kaye-Blake, William; Miller, Sini; Tait, Peter R..

With current concerns about climate change and the general status of the environment, there is an increasing expectation that products have sustainability credentials, and that these can be verified. Labelling is a common method of communicating certain product attributes to consumers that may influence their choices. There are different types of labels with several functions. The aim of this study is to investigate consumers‟ purchase decisions towards certain sustainability claims on food products, particularly by displaying the reduction of carbon emissions. Choice outcomes will be evaluated using Discrete Choice Modelling (DCM). Data for the study is obtained by a web-based consumer survey undertaken in the United Kingdom (UK). Results provide...

Influences of Labeling Policy and Media Coverage On the Demand for Butter and Margarine

Palavras-chave: Food labeling; Carbon footprint; Discrete choice modeling; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Environmental Economics and Policy; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy.

Ano: 2010

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/96944

Lin, Chung-Tung Jordan; Lee, Jonq-Ying.

Carbon Labeling for Consumer Food Goods

Palavras-chave: Food labeling; Regulation; Media coverage; Trans fat; Consumer demand; Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.

Ano: 2010

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61161

Shewmake, Sharon; Okrent, Abigail M.; Thabrew, Lanka; Vandenbergh, Michael.

We construct a model to predict how consumers will respond to better information about the carbon content of 42 foods and a nonfood composite as well as product categories through a label, and provide guidance as to what kinds of goods would provide the highest CO¬2eq emission reductions through a labeling scheme. Our model assumes that consumers value their individual carbon footprint, allowing us to utilize estimates of own- and cross-price elasticities of demand from the literature on demand analysis. We make three different assumptions about how consumers currently value their carbon footprint and find that when a label informs consumers, their baseline perception matters. We also find that carbon labels on alcohol and meat would achieve the largest...

Tipo: Presentation

Palavras-chave: Carbon emissions; Food labeling; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Environmental Economics and Policy; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; Q53; D83; Q18.

Ano: 2012

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/124369

GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROP INNOVATIONS AND PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION: TRADE AND WELFARE EFFECTS IN THE SOYBEAN COMPLEX

Sobolevsky, Andrei; Moschini, GianCarlo; Lapan, Harvey E..

We develop a new partial equilibrium, four-region world trade model for the soybean complex comprising soybeans, soybean oil, and soybean meal. In the model, some consumers view genetically modified Roundup Ready (RR) soybeans and products as weakly inferior to conventional ones; the RR seed is patented and sold worldwide by a U.S. firm; and producers employ a costly segregation technology to separate conventional and biotech products in the supply chain. The calibrated model is solved for equilibrium prices, quantities, production patterns, trade flows, and welfare changes under different assumptions regarding regional government's production and trade policies, differentiated consumer tastes, and several other demand and supply parameters. Incomplete...

BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN FARMERS AND CONSUMERS: VALUE CREATION AND MEDIATION IN “PASTURE-RAISED BEEF” FOOD NETWORKS

Palavras-chave: Biotechnology; Differentiated demand; Food labeling; Genetically modified products; Identity preservation; Innovations; Intellectual property rights; International trade; Loan deficiency payments; Market failure; Monopoly; Roundup Ready soybeans; Crop Production/Industries; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies.

Ano: 2002

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18348

Bedoin, Florence; Kristensen, Troels; Noe, Egon.

The aim of this article is to explore how different quality dimensions (safety, aesthetics, ethics and rooted ness) are created in food networks; how these qualities are transferred until the consumers; and how this process is supported by the organisation of the food network. Our postulate is that combining the quality and organisation dimensions and exploring the link between them will provide an interesting perspective for improving the sharing of values in food networks. This framework is applied to five case studies of “pasture-raised beef” food networks in France, representing a diversity of organisations such as public label scheme, cooperate owned brand and direct sell from farmer to consumer. The results highlight the importance of the role of...

IDENTITY PRESERVATION AND LABELING OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED PRODUCTS: SYSTEM DESIGN AND ENFORCEMENT ISSUES

Palavras-chave: Grassland; Meat quality; Sustainability; Food labeling; Case study; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.

Ano: 2009

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/57475

Moschini, GianCarlo; Lapan, Harvey E..

This paper analyzes economic issues that arise in devising a credible and enforceable system of identity preservation and labeling for genetically modified (GM) and non-GM products. The model represents three stages in the supply chain: farm production, marketing handlers, and final users. The possibility of accidental co-mingling of non-GM products is modeled at the marketing stage. Regulation takes the form of a threshold level of purity for non-GM products, a probability of government testing to verify compliance with the threshold level, and a fine for violators. Uncertainty is modeled explicitly, such that would-be suppliers of non-GM products always face some risk of failing the test and incurring a fine. The paper also presents a novel demand...