The traffic-light system, introduced last year by the Food Standards Agency FSAA), shows at a glance the amount of sugar, salt and fat in a particular product, but so far it is voluntary for food producers, plus it requires some work and prior knowledge on the consumer's part.
This means that, in the "functional foods" domain, uniform approaches will probably not be maximally effective, thus emphasising the need for greater knowledge on individual consumer's responses and the (deviations in) metabolism that underlie the development of chronic anomalies.
Australia is one of many countries in the process of developing regulations for these devices yet knowledge of consumers' views on e-cigarette regulation is lacking.
While there is a growing body of knowledge on disability sport consumer behavior (Byon, Carroll, Cottingham, Grady, & Allen, 2011; Byon, Cottingham, & Carroll, 2010), these studies used scales explicitly designed for non-disability sport contexts, showing only reasonable model fit and not examining factors specific to the disability sport consumer experience.
Past research on consumer price knowledge has varied considerably partly due to differences in how and when price knowledge is measured.
Using a meta-analytic framework, this paper synthesizes the results of 297 previous price knowledge studies to document the effects of inflation, unemployment, GDP growth, interest rates, country of study, and passage of time on consumer price knowledge.
While some of these disagreements have been attributed to research design variations among studies, no inquiry has yet been made on the role of the economic environment on consumer price knowledge.
The technical definition of a hidden tax is one that is indirectly assessed on consumer goods without the consumer's' knowledge.
We also examine the effects of exposure to two contextualized values that have recently been promoted in expert discourse consumer knowledge and consumer safety – on public support of policies.
