Biotech, The Food Perspective: Coping With Consumer Concern

Food quality and safety––consumer perception and public health concern

Food safety has become an important food quality attribute within the last decade. In 2002, we conducted a consumer survey with 449 subjects in Kiel to determine actual consumer perceptions to food quality and safety. We compared these data with our former consumer surveys in Kiel. Over the past decade food quality is perceived to have improved. Regarding to food related health risks, the feeli...

Proteomics: The Next Frontier—A Biotech Perspective

Proteomics is a nascent technology with much to develop and much to offer. Both the biotechnology and pharmaceutical arenas will be highly impacted by the new window proteomics is opening. This area of studies will permit us to identify, characterize, and quantify proteins on a massive scale, resulting in a fundamental change in biological and chemical approaches to understanding proteins and e...

Sociodemographic Influences on Consumer Concern for Food Safety: The Case of Irradiation, Antibiotics, Hormones, and Pesticides

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Correlation between coping styles and body dysmorphic concern among student

Background and Aim: worry about physical appearance is in psychiatric disorders. This occupation about body image is one of the main worry in the female students. The aim of present study was to determine the relationship between body dysmorphic concern and coping styles among female students in Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz. Method: In this survey study, 141 female students were selec...

The Academy Chokes on Food Biotech, Public Policy Suffocates