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Vol. 15, 04 December 2023
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Research on consumers’ understanding and attitudes to food additives ⸺ Taking Shanghai as an example
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Abstract
Nowadays, there are a variety of food additives on the market, and the use of food additives is becoming increasingly frequent. However, most consumers are not very familiar with some common food additives, and there is a common misconception about food additives, believing that they will definitely pose a threat to human health. According to previous studies, the legitimate and reasonable use of food additives does not affect health. Therefore, this study uses a questionnaire survey to study consumers' awareness and attitudes towards common food additives, taking Shanghai as an example. It can be concluded that consumers in Shanghai generally have a low level of understanding of food additives, so this paper analyzes the survey data and proposes some relevant suggestions to address this situation. For instance, the government can eliminate public misunderstandings through extensive publicity.
Keywords
Food Additives, Consumers, Human Health, Food Safety
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The datasets used and/or analyzed during the current study will be available from the authors upon reasonable request.
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- Volume Title
- Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Modern Medicine and Global Health
- ISBN (Print)
- 978-1-83558-193-3
- ISBN (Online)
- 978-1-83558-194-0
- Published Date
- 04 December 2023
- Series
- Theoretical and Natural Science
- ISSN (Print)
- 2753-8818
- ISSN (Online)
- 2753-8826
- DOI
- 10.54254/2753-8818/15/20240469
- Copyright
- 04 December 2023
- Open Access
- This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited