British Food Journal: Volume 112 Issue 4

Approaches for enhancing the viability of probiotics: a review

S. Sarkar

The purpose of this article is to attempt to highlight various approaches for enhancing the viability of probiotics, with special emphasis on micro‐encapsulation.

Potential cross‐contamination of the ready‐to‐eat dried meat product, biltong

Keshia Naidoo, Denise Lindsay

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the hygiene of surfaces that come into direct contact with the ready to eat dried meat product, biltong, at point‐of‐sale in three different…

Assessing new product development success factors in the Thai food industry

Prisana Suwannaporn, Mark W. Speece

The aim of this paper is to measure new product development (NPD) success factors in the Thai food industry.

Involvement, competencies, gender and food health information seeking

Torben Hansen, Heidi Boye, Thyra Uth Thomsen

The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the role of gender, food health involvement, and food health information competency in predicting consumer food health…

Consumer behaviour in the Greek floral market: Comparative insights for the food industry

Marinos Tzavaras, Irini Tzimitra‐Kalogianni, Michael Bourlakis

The purpose of this paper is to analyse consumer behavior during the purchase of floral products in the Greek region and to reveal the socio‐economic characteristics that affect…

Do businesses get the food poisoning they deserve?: The importance of food safety culture

Christopher James Griffith

Food poisoning remains a major public health problem and 2009 has seen major outbreaks with both financial and social implications. The aim of this paper is to examine whether a…

Food safety culture: the evolution of an emerging risk factor?

C.J. Griffith, K.M. Livesey, D.A. Clayton

Outbreaks of foodborne disease are often investigated to determine the causes although traditional approaches to identifying risk factors may not determine the real or underlying…

The assessment of food safety culture

C.J. Griffith, K.M. Livesey, D. Clayton

The concept of food safety organizational culture, whilst largely ignored in the past, is attracting increasing interest. The purpose of this paper is to examine a possible…

Food Safety Culture: Creating a Behaviour‐based Food Safety Management System

Christopher James Griffith