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2007
Beaunom, Wendy, Ding, Yulian, Kingston-Riechers, JoAnn, McCann-Hiltz, Diane, Cash, Sean B., Peng, Yanning
This study investigates consumer attitudes toward functional foods in the context of CLA-enhanced beef products. The objectives of this study were to identify the following issues: 1) consumer awareness and attitudes towards nutrition, functional foods, and other emerging factors; 2) consumers'...
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Consumer Preferences for Biopreservatives in Beef and Pork Packaging and Testing the Importance of Product Origin
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Unterschultz, Jim, Veeman, Michele M., Quagrainie, Kwamena K.
Recent food science research on packaging at the University of Alberta has focused on the use of biological agents (biopreservatives) to extend meat shelf life. This potential technology involves the introduction of microbial organisms into food packages to control or inhibit the growth of...
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2000
Veeman, Michele M., Adamowicz, Wiktor
Public concern regarding food safety has emerged as a major policy issue. Chemicals and biotechnological processes are perceived as risks of food safety despite their contribution to an efficient, low cost agriculture and food industry. Increases in uses of biotechnological processes for foods...
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Consumers' Responses to the Potential Use of Bovine Somatotrophin in Canadian Dairy Production
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Adamowicz, Wiktor, Veeman, Michele M., Kuperis, Peter
The responses of a random sample of consumers to the use of bovine somatotrophin (BST) in milk production were elicited using a stated preference methodology. A multinomial logit model of consumer choice was developed and tested to analyse consumers' choices of milk with varying characteristics...
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2001
This paper views the social landscape of biotechnology from the perspective of emerging perceptions and attitudes of consumers to food biotechnology. The information from which consumers' perceptions and attitudes may be discerned comes in several different forms. These include market responses...
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1996
Unterschultz, Jim, Vincent, Michel, Quagrainie, Kwamena K.
The province of Quebec is one of the major domestic markets for Alberta beef products. In 1994, Alberta accounted for 54.5% of beef imports into Quebec. Other competitors who also supply beef to Quebec include Ontario, the US, and Australia/New Zealand. Australia/New Zealand provide mostly...
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2004
Veeman, Michele M., Adamowicz, Wiktor
Consumers’ attitudes to genetically modified (GM) food ingredients and their reactions to and preferences for labeling of GM food are topical issues for Canadian food policy and are the subjects of this study. This project included several components. The first of these was an assessment of...
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2002
Chen, Kevin Z., Yen, Steven T.
The notion that a potato is an inferior good dates back to the mid-nineteenth century when British economist Robert Giffen (and later Paul Samuelson) asserted that potato constituted a Giffen good in historic Ireland (McDonough and Eisenhauer). Potato has become a leading practical example of an...
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The Effect of Choice Environment and Task Demands on Consumer Behavior: Discriminating Between Contribution and Confusion
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Swait, Joffre, Adamowicz, Wiktor
Choices, whether they are made in actual markets (revealed preferences or RP) or in surveys (stated preference of SP), provide information about the preferences of individuals. These choices also contain what researchers interpret as \"noise\" or unexplained variation; a variety of techniques...