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Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on consumers' food safety knowledge and behavior in China by MIN, Shi; XIANG, Cheng; ZHANG, Xiao-heng is a Agricultural and Biological Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
This study assesses the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Chinese residents' food safety knowledge and behavior, and explores the possible influence mechanism, namely, focus on media information. The study is based on internet survey data of 1 373 residents in China. A series of econometric models are developed to estimate food safety knowledge and behavior of residents. Both the descriptive and econometric results indicate that the existence of COVID-19 cases in a community has a significantly positive effect on residents' food safety knowledge and behavior. Residents focusing on food safety-related information tend to have higher food safety knowledge and practice food safety behavior. When controlling the variable focused on food safety-related information, the marginal effects of the existence of COVID-19 cases in a community on residents' food safety knowledge and behavior significantly decrease. However, the decrease in consumers' food safety knowledge is quite minor. Hence, the COVID-19 pandemic indeed improves Chinese residents' food safety knowledge and behavior, while focus on food safety-related information is an important mechanism for improving food safety behavior.
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- Author
- MIN, Shi; XIANG, Cheng; ZHANG, Xiao-heng
- Publisher
- Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 2095-3119)
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)