Consumers' judgement of safety of regional horticultural products in Hungary

摘要

Nowadays, with penetration of globalisation become forgotten the food preparing skills that were transferred from one generation to another. Culinary habits and style of living of people, families have changed; tourism involves more and more people. Claim for unknown dishes, foodstuffs increased in Hungary, too. In the course of my research work we investigated how the consumers judge the food safety of traditional horticulture products. Several scientific assessments were made on foodstuff purchasing habits of the Hungarian consumers, however, food safety of traditional horticulture products is being analysed only in the last years. We used a questionnaire for the assessment. We evaluated the data collected during primary research by a mathematical-statistical method. In our investigations we applied SPSS. We evaluated the data gathered by the following procedures: multidimensional scaling, factor analysis, confidence interval, Correspondence analysis. Consumer's judgement of foodstuff safety is: only 13% of respondents answered with definite Yes to the question whether the foodstuffs are safe or not. When classifying the dangers of the foodstuffs safety the respondents emphasized the role of additives; toxins were put on the last place. From among the factors influencing foodstuffs safety the respondents deemed hygiene circumstances to be of great importance; they identified as the largest problem the unprofessional application of chemical insecticides. The respondents prefer to purchase traditional foodstuffs in trade shops. From further answers it can be seen that most respondents deem the price to be as important as the foodstuffs safety.