The Food Standards Agency (FSA) Biannual Public Attitudes Tracker results have been published with animal welfare coming fourth in the areas of concern listed by he general public.
43% of the public listed animal welfare as a major concern, but the findings also showed that 44% of respondents trustedthat people who produce the food have their best interests at heart and the majority of those questioned (75%) that they trusted the food is accurately labelled and 74% trusted the authenticity of the ingredients.
Salmonella and E-coli were by far the most commonly known types of food poisoning (total awareness of 89% and 82% respectively). Perceived most likely sources of food poisoning were raw chicken or turkey (79%), followed by shellfish (54%), reheated take-away food (47%) and eggs (38%).
