Wimberley, Ronald C. (author) and Thompson, Alton (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
USA: Praeger, Westport, Connecticut.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C37084
Notes:
See C37075 for original, Pages 117-124 in Ronald C. Wimberley, Craig K. Harris, Joseph J. Molnar and Terry J. Tomazic (eds.), The social risks of agriculture: Americans speak out on food, farming and the environment. Praeger, Westport, Connecticut. 163 pages.
Available via HathiTrust.org., Online via keyword search of UI Library eCatalog, Case study of 126 residents from a metropolitan area who, during the 1981-82 Mediterranean Fruitfly Crisis, were undergoing exposure to aerial spraying with a pesticide. Findings exemplified the difficulties facing decision makers and the public in uncertain risk situations such as this, as well as the politicization of risk.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26668
Notes:
Archived November 15, 2007, Nutra Ingredients via Food Safety Network. 1 page., Cites consensus of those attending a conference of the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment in Berlin.
Via Foodproductiondaily.com. 2 pages., "Public apathy has set in over the safety of the food supply due to the soaring number of scares and recalls, according to a UK survey."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: D06744
Notes:
Online via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. PhD dissertation, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins. Publication No. AAT 9303860. Source: DAI-B 53/09, p. 4436, March 1993. 1 page., Results suggest that a risk/benefit with options approach has potential for raising consumer rational alertness.
