Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C19689
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Pages 41-68 in James Flynn, Paul Slovic and Howard Kunreuther (eds), Risk, media and stigma: understanding public challenges to modern science and technology. Earthscan Publications Ltd., London, England. 399 pages., Case study of a "radiating chain of stigma beginning with the accidental contamination of silage with oils containing polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), the consumption of the feed by dairy cows, the discovery of PCBs in cows milk bottled as a raw milk pro
Online via UI electronic subscription, Researchers used weekly meat production and sales data to assess how media depictions of LFTB affected consumer demand during and after the scare in 2012.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21755
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Pages 169-187 in Robert E.Evenson and Vittorio Santaniello (eds.), Consumer acceptance of genetically modified foods. CABI Publishing, Oxon, United Kingdom. 235 pages.
22 pages., Online via UI electronic subscription, Researchers combined recent national survey data and media reports to quantitatively examine the effects of food scandals and media exposure on food safety risk. Findings suggesed hat media reported food scandals are not significantly related to public concern about food safety risk, suggesting that food risk perceptions may be nationwide rather than region specific. Findings also suggested that more educated citizens with more media exposure were more concerned about food safety risk.
