TY - GEN
T1 - Public information requirements on health risk of mercury in fish (1)
T2 - Joint ESREL (European Safety and Reliability) and SRA-Europe (Society for Risk Analysis Europe) Conference
AU - Kosugi, M.
AU - Kubota, H.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - A web survey investigating attitudes toward food safety, the public's risk perception of mercury in fish, and knowledge of the risk of mercury to the fetuses associated with the consumption of specific species of fish was conducted. The survey was conducted in March 2007, and there were 2,109 respondents for a response rate was 43.5%. Results showed that: 1) respondents were sensitive to food safety, but they were not necessarily knowledgeable regarding management of food risk, 2) the perceived risk to human health concerning 'mercury in seafood' was high, especially the risk to fetuses, and 3) there were three possible interpretations: respondents knew the risk of low-level mercury exposure to fetuses, associate mercury found in fish only with the 'Minamata' disease, and respondents knew both of the risk of low-level and high-level mercury exposure. These results suggest the necessity to clarify the public's ideas, knowledge, and the relationship between these two in more detail.
AB - A web survey investigating attitudes toward food safety, the public's risk perception of mercury in fish, and knowledge of the risk of mercury to the fetuses associated with the consumption of specific species of fish was conducted. The survey was conducted in March 2007, and there were 2,109 respondents for a response rate was 43.5%. Results showed that: 1) respondents were sensitive to food safety, but they were not necessarily knowledgeable regarding management of food risk, 2) the perceived risk to human health concerning 'mercury in seafood' was high, especially the risk to fetuses, and 3) there were three possible interpretations: respondents knew the risk of low-level mercury exposure to fetuses, associate mercury found in fish only with the 'Minamata' disease, and respondents knew both of the risk of low-level and high-level mercury exposure. These results suggest the necessity to clarify the public's ideas, knowledge, and the relationship between these two in more detail.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79952337500
SN - 9780415485135
T3 - Safety, Reliability and Risk Analysis: Theory, Methods and Applications - Proceedings of the Joint ESREL and SRA-Europe Conference
SP - 2305
EP - 2309
BT - Safety, Reliability and Risk Analysis
Y2 - 22 September 2008 through 25 September 2008
ER -
