Food choices: beyond gut feelings
Science on the Menu: A Food Safety Podcast by EFSA
European Food Safety Authority
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🗓️ 14 November 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
What is your first concern regarding food? Does food safety cross your mind when you think about what to eat? For close to half Europeans it is the case, as EFSA social scientist Domagoj Vrbos explains to us. Come and sit at our table in this first episode of “Science on the menu”, in which we will talk you through the insights of the latest Eurobarometer, unveiling EU citizens’ perception about food risks and how those influence what we eat.
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| 0:00.0 | Science on the menu, a podcast by the European Food Safety Authority. |
| 0:19.4 | What really matters to you when you decide what to eat? The price of food, its taste, |
| 0:26.1 | maybe its quality, origin, or how it was produced. Do you think about food safety when you |
| 0:32.3 | buy your food? Would you eat something noble like an insect? If science tells you it is safe? |
| 0:39.3 | Our new podcast, Science on the menu, explores the science behind the food we eat, |
| 0:45.3 | how scientists assess health risks to keep us safe, and how we as consumers relate to our food. |
| 1:05.0 | Hello, I'm Barbara from the European Food Safety Authority, EFSA, and I'm speaking to you from Parma in the heart of the Italian Food Valley. |
| 1:09.0 | In this first episode, we will find out what aspects of food people are most concerned about |
| 1:14.9 | and how they differ from country to country. |
| 1:17.7 | To do that, I'm joined by our social insights expert, Domagoi. |
| 1:22.1 | Thanks for embarking with me on this adventure and welcome. |
| 1:25.3 | Chao, Barbara, So happy to be here. |
| 1:32.5 | I'm Domogwe-Verbos or DOMA, as colleagues like to call me, and I lead EFSA's Strategic Communication Team. |
| 1:34.2 | So what do we do? |
| 1:35.5 | Basically, through social science, we explore audiences across Europe and understand the |
| 1:41.5 | context in which you work to increase the relevance of our communication. |
| 1:46.3 | In case some of our listeners don't know us, EFSA is a scientific agency of the European Union. |
| 1:52.4 | Our scientists assess health risks throughout the food chain, spanning from the safety of food |
| 1:58.7 | and animal feed ingredients to pesticide residues, new plant |
| 2:02.6 | breeding techniques and new foods. We also provide scientific advice on many other areas, |
| 2:07.6 | such as food-related diseases or animal and plant health. |
| 2:12.6 | Domagoi, can you tell us how social science fits into all of this? |
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