Food Biosecurity: Modeling the Health, Economic, Social and Psychological Consequences of Intentional and Unintentional Food Contamination

Research Team: William Hallman, et al

Project Duration: 9/2005 to 8/2009

The goal of this project is to ensure food biosecurity by significantly enhancing the effectiveness of threat prevention, threat response, risk management, risk communication, and public education efforts by creating a multidisciplinary understanding of the health, economic, social and psychological consequences of intentional and unintentional food contamination.

Funding Agency: USDA - National Integrated Food Safety Initiative

Contact: William Hallman

Presentations

1. A consumer's view of food risks
2. Auditing kitchens of New Jersey families: One methodology for diverse populations.
3. Being Included: Terrorism Becomes Agro-Terrorism
4. Communicating about Contaminated Food
5. Decomposing Dread: Refining the Nature of Dread in the Psychometric Paradigm
6. Did you see the news today? Media coverage of tomatoes, peppers, and Salmonella
7. Emergency preparedness and food storage among Mexican families in New Jersey
8. Food safety risk perceptions as a tool for market segmentation: The U.S. poultry meat market
9. Groups unaware of food recall: Policy implications
10. How do we know when a food is safe to eat (again)
11. Intuitive Microbiology: Americans' Understanding of Germs, Disease, and Immunity
12. Lay Mental Models of Germs, Health, and Disease
13. Maintaining food quality and security
14. Public Awareness of Salmonella Saintpaul Outbreak of 2008
15. Public Perceptions of the Risks of Deliberate Contamination of the Food Supply of the United States
16. Public Perceptions of the Threat of Avian Influenza in the U.S. Food Supply
17. Public Response to the Salmonella Saintpaul Outbreak of 2008
18. Reaching Out With the Web: Evaluation of Food Website Quality
19. Relationship Between Salmonallosis Knowledge, Risk Perceptions and Behaviors
20. Research Needs Prioritization for Conducting a Quantitative Risk Assessment of E. coli O157:H7 in Leafy Greens
21. The Psychology of Food Risks

Food Policy Institute Research Reports

1. Food Recalls and the American Public: Improving Communications
2. Consumer Responses to Food Recalls: 2008 National Survey Report
3. Public Response to the Salmonella Saintpaul Outbreak of 2008
4. The U.S. Food Import System: Issues, Processes and Proposals
5. The U.S. Food Import System: Issues, Processes and Proposals [Addendum: Imported Food Safety]

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

1. Consumers’ Perception of Food System Vulnerability to an Agroterrorist Attack
2. Purchasing Organic Food in U.S. Food Systems: A Study of Attitudes and Practice

Research Abstracts (Journal)

1. Political Communication and Agroterrorism

Papers Presented at Professional Conferences and Meetings

1. Groups unaware of food recall: Policy implications
2. Is There Any Evidence Of Dominant Offsetting Behavior In Food Safety?
3. Consumer Risk Perceptions of Agroterrorism
4. Public Perceptions of the Risks of Deliberate Contamination of the Food Supply in the United States
5. Consumer Risk Perceptions of Agro-Terrorism with Implications for Food Systems Management

Other Research Reports

1. Public Risk Perceptions of Agro-Terrorism: Implications for Food Systems Management

Other Outputs

1. Salmonella - it's what for dinner tonight: Communicating to the public about food contamination.