A report in Food Navigator – USA suggests that even though the levels of incidence of food related illness is rising the population are less concerned about food safety than they were.
The survey also makes some distinction between low and high income families with the former in general more concerned over food safety.
The survey also showed that people were concerned the most about the food safety of meat, produce seafood and then dairy. Interestingly the concern over fresh produce has increased whilst the concern over meat has dropped. This may have been affected by recent high-profile food illness outbreaks associated by fresh produce including the recent Salmonella in Papaya and Listeria in cantaloupes.
There is a link to the full survey from the Food Navigator USA Article
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