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...

This publication serves as a global comprehensive resource for readers seeking exposure factor data and information relevant to consumer exposure assessment. It describes the types of information that may be found in various official surveys and online and published resources. The relevant exposure factors cover a broad range, including general exposure factor data found in published compendia ...

Laypersons ("consumers") often have difficulty finding, understanding, and acting on health information due to gaps in their domain knowledge. Ideally, consumer health vocabularies (CHVs) would reflect the different ways consumers express and think about health topics, helping to bridge this vocabulary gap. However, despite the recent research on mismatches between consumer and professional lan...

The causes and ramifications of the rise in the consumer debt burden over time have been subject to much debate. This paper first offers a brief overview and analysis of the key economic variables used to evaluate consumer debt levels. The principal focus of the paper, however, is a broad review of the literature on the topic of consumer debt to provide a framework for how to assess recent cred...

The recent proliferation of e-commerce has led to a great deal of analysis probing the who, what, where, when, and why’s of new opportunities for conducting business online. In this publication alone, articles have ranged from theoretical predictions of the economic forces that will mold the Internet market (see [1]) to invasion-of-privacy issues reflected in empirical analysis of online consum...

Delivering ‘relevant’ advertisements to consumers carrying mobile devices is regarded by many as one of the most promising mobile business opportunities. The relevance of a mobile ad depends on at least two factors: (1) the proximity of the mobile consumer to the product or service being advertised, and (2) the match between the product or service and the interest of the mobile consumer. The in...

In this study, we surveyed consumer evaluations of the taste and functionality a product containing tomato Shonan Pomoron–which is rich in lycopene–from Kanagawa prefecture Japan. This an initiative to register foods with functional claims (kinou sei hyoji shokuhin). The purpose use insights gained into sensitivity behavior explore future possibilities for labeling display products health benef...

Studies in Vietnam and other countries reveal that the number consumers willing to consider cosmetic surgery has increased. The purpose of this paper is to stimulate a research agenda by illuminating a key empirical issue on forecasting deviant consumer behaviour in Vietnam in relation to aspects of cosmetic surgery. Questions considered, include; what are the factors that affect consumers’ exp...

An adaptation of two well-established measures of changes in financial markets return and volatility is presented for the analysis of changes: (a) in consumer confidence about national economies, and (b) in sentiments articulated in financial news stories text and extracted automatically by counting the frequency of polarity words. This analysis is then compared and contrasted with the changes ...