3/2012
vol. 93
abstract:
PERSPECTIVES European consumers and GM-foods
A lecture presented at a session organised by the Biotechnology Committee
of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, 26 April, 2012
BioTechnologia vol. 93(3) C pp. 277-283 C 2012
Online publish date: 2014/10/29
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Rather than ask consumers via questionnaires and polls about their attitudes to GM-foods and if they would buy
them, the CONSUMERCHOICE study sought to determine whether European consumers actually did purchase
GM-labelled food products in those countries participating in the project in which they were on sale (the Czech
Republic, Poland, Spain and The Netherlands in this inquiry). The results showed (a) that indeed they did, and
(b) that what consumers said in questionnaires with respect to GM-foods was not a reliable guide to what they
did when buying their food supplies. A survey of the behaviour of Polish and UK citizens living in or visiting North
America revealed that they took little or no action to avoid the widespread use of (unlabelled) GM-products in
Canada and the United States.
keywords:
consumers, EU Member States, GM-foods, labels, questionnaires, polls, behaviour in food stores
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