Information Quality Project: Food Biosecurity: Modeling the Health, Economic, Social and Psychological Consequences of Intentional and Unintintional Food Contamination
FOOD BIOSECURITY:
Modeling the Health, Economic, Social and Psychological Consequences of Intentional and Unintentional Food Contamination
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Food Biosecurity

Project Overview


       The goal of this project is to ensure food biosecurity by significantly enhancing the effectiveness of threat prevention, threat response, risk management, communication and public education efforts. It is a multidisciplinary and multi-institutional project that examines all aspects of this important question. For more information about the full study see the Rutgers Food Policy Institute.

Website Information Quality


        The research questions of this segment of the project are:
    What is the quantity and quality of media items available to consumers about the intentional or unintentional contamination of food?
    What is the quality of web items devoted to food and biosecurity?
    How do Web resources portray key incidents of food contamination?


     

Food Policy Institute
Rutgers
SCILS

Page Last Updated: 03/08/2006
Created by Nora Bird
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