식품안전관리체계에 대한 소비자 인식 분석

(Consumers’ Awareness on the Food Safety Management System)

Mutual cooperation between central and local governments is essential to effective food safety management. The purpose of this study is to analyze consumers’ awareness for the roles of central and local governments and relationship between them for food safety management. This study conducted a random survey of 300 adults around capital area to accomplish an objective of the study. Also, econometrics model of binary logit was introduced to analyze consumers’ awareness of the relationship between central and local governments. The results show that consumers who are female and relatively young think that there exists mutual cooperation between central and local governments. Also, the important factors are residence and education level. Consumers who are not highly educated and live in seoul area believe of the existence of mutual cooperation relationship. And consumers with high confidence for food safety management of government and high belief on importance of the roles of central and fundamental local governments also show belief on the existence of mutual cooperation relationship.