experience certificate format for food quality control

The consumer of the 21st Century is a highly demanding one, exhibiting greater concern about quality and health benefits with respect to products he/she buys. The demand for high quality food has constantly increased during recent decades, as has the interest in the food quality issue both in response to market pressure (such as requests from increasingly demanding and knowledgeable consumers) and also as a reaction to other factors, for example health and environmental concerns. It is concluded that food quality receives high attention both from Belgian and Romanian consumers and health and environment related cues can be used as a means of improving consumer health and environmental protection. The most relevant cues of food healthiness are ingredients, nutrition facts, and additives and for food environmental impact are packaging, food origin, and production type. The use frequency of food quality cues related to health is primarily influenced by the attention paid to food quality. Our findings suggest that investigated consumers most frequently use freshness, taste, and appearance to evaluate food quality. More precisely, to elicit preferences for social, environmental, and qualitative food cues, a survey instrument was developed and applied on 797 Belgian and Romanian consumers. The present study identifies the importance that consumers attach to quality, health, and environment selected cues of purchased food products. The last few decades testify that consumers’ concerns for healthier lifestyles and environment care are driving forces for reshaping food buying intentions and their perspectives on food quality.

Experience certificate format for food quality control