The Food Standards Agency’s (FSA) latest public attitudes tracker shows that the main food safety issue people continue to be concerned about is food hygiene when eating out. Other issues include food poisoning and the use of additives in food.
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The Agency conducts a tracking survey among consumers, in order to monitor changes in consumer attitudes towards the Agency and food-related issues.
The survey covers five main areas:
- awareness of the FSA and its responsibilities
- trust in the FSA
- food-related concerns
- awareness of hygiene standards in eating establishments
- awareness on initiatives or schemes concerning hygiene standards
The survey has monitored people’s attitudes since 2001. In spring 2010, research was carried out to help redevelop the tracker survey methodology and questions, so the survey now runs on a biannual basis. The report of this research and a follow-up report, which tested the revised questions can be viewed in the ‘see also’ section below.
In this latest tracker survey, three new questions were added to measure awareness of initiatives or schemes concerning the hygiene standards in places where people eat out or shop for food. The results show that 19% of respondents had seen or heard about this type of scheme. When prompted, 21% of respondents reported that they had seen or heard about the ‘Food Hygiene Rating scheme’, 12% had seen or heard about ‘Scores on the Doors’ and 10% had seen or heard about the ‘Food Hygiene Information Scheme’.
This latest wave of research was undertaken in November 2011, with a total number of 2,076 respondents interviewed via the TNS consumer face-to-face omnibus survey.
The third wave of the redeveloped tracker survey, carried out in November 2011, can be found in the first link below.
- Biannual Public Attitudes Tracker
- Public attitudes tracker: A review of the methodology and questions
- Public attitudes tracker: Report of cognitive testing of the questionnaire
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