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Publication date: 1 April 1987

Patricia Scobie

The now familiar message, initiated by the NACNE and COMA reports, that our health is linked to our eating habits has resulted in consumers being much more selective when buying…

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The now familiar message, initiated by the NACNE and COMA reports, that our health is linked to our eating habits has resulted in consumers being much more selective when buying food. This demand for information has had a positive response from the food manufacturing industry and food retailers, many of whom are now giving detailed nutrition information on their labels. Similarly, we are about to have a set of Government guidelines on nutrition labelling designed to ensure that nutrition information is given in a standard format and can easily be compared.

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Nutrition & Food Science, vol. 87 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0034-6659

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Publication date: 1 June 1987

Patricia Scobie and Daniel Stevenson

Dietary fibre is a general term for the combination of celluloses and pectins that pass through the digestive system largely unchanged. Modern cereal processing techniques and a…

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Dietary fibre is a general term for the combination of celluloses and pectins that pass through the digestive system largely unchanged. Modern cereal processing techniques and a decline in the popularity of bread and potatoes have combined to reduce our intake of fibre to around 20g per day. However, fibre is an essential part of our diet and low intakes are thought to lead to a series of problems varying from constipation to cancer of the colon.

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Nutrition & Food Science, vol. 87 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0034-6659

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Publication date: 1 May 1987

Patricia Scobie

Fat occurs in meals either because it forms part of the ingredients or because of the cooking or garnishing methods used. We found that many traditional practices considerably…

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Fat occurs in meals either because it forms part of the ingredients or because of the cooking or garnishing methods used. We found that many traditional practices considerably increased the quantity of fat in a dish.

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Nutrition & Food Science, vol. 87 no. 5
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ISSN: 0034-6659

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Publication date: 1 June 1989

Patricia Scobie and David Firth

Food retailing began to change in the early 1950's with the introduction of self selection in shops. By 1987, this self selection accounted for 72% of the grocery trade. The…

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Food retailing began to change in the early 1950's with the introduction of self selection in shops. By 1987, this self selection accounted for 72% of the grocery trade. The abolition of retail price maintenance in 1964 was another important factor in the retail revolution and now just five large multiples dominate our food buying (see Table 1). Table 2 shows the impact of multiple retailing which has led to a rapid reduction in the total number of shops and an increase in the number of superstores which offer the consumer considerable breadth and depth of choice.

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Nutrition & Food Science, vol. 89 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0034-6659

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Publication date: 5 June 2024

Melissa Kavanaugh, Patricia A. Shewokis and Jennifer J. Quinlan

The purpose of this study was to create and validate a food safety survey for older adults.

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Purpose

The purpose of this study was to create and validate a food safety survey for older adults.

Design/methodology/approach

The survey was designed to measure food handling and consumption behaviors related to high-risk foods. Survey questions were also designed to capture behavioral constructs from the health belief model (HBM). The first administration of the survey was completed by 349 participants, 55 years of age and older. Exploratory factor analysis was used to assess construct validity, and Cronbach’s alpha was used to assess the internal consistency of the subscales generated through factor analysis. Two weeks after the first administration, the survey was completed a second time by 149 participants from the original sample. The intraclass correlation coefficient was used to evaluate test-retest reliability.

Findings

Exploratory factor analysis yielded four factors related to the HBM (perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived barriers and cues to action) and three factors related to food handling practices (handling of processed meats, food thermometer use with poultry and washing or rinsing poultry). Inclusion in a factor meant that the related questions measured the same underlying construct. Cronbach’s alpha for these factors ranged from 0.63 to 0.77. Modification of the survey following validation resulted in the development of a 44-question instrument that can be used with older adults.

Practical implications

This survey will next be administered to a representative sample of older adults to assess relationships between HBM constructs and food handling behaviors and is available for use by other researchers.

Originality/value

There are few validated tools that can be used with older adults to evaluate food safety risks.

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British Food Journal, vol. 126 no. 7
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0007-070X

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Publication date: 16 August 2019

Tyron Rakeiora Love

The purpose of this short paper is to comment on the powerful contribution researchers have made to the emerging field of Indigenous O&M scholarship.

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Purpose

The purpose of this short paper is to comment on the powerful contribution researchers have made to the emerging field of Indigenous O&M scholarship.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper reviews the work in the field of Indigenous O&M.

Findings

Indigenous O&M research, first, has been driven by the effects of colonization and the attempts to reclaim traditional ways of researching, organizing and managing, second; has sought asylum in established critical and alternative fields of scholarship to create research legitimacy in the mainstream, and; third, produced novel methodological processes.

Originality/value

Several observations of the field will be made and some considerations are put forward to promote research within the tight – almost impenetrable – boundaries of the academy and its institutions.

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Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal, vol. 15 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1746-5648

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Publication date: 4 May 2012

Patricia Fraser, Martin Hoesli and Lynn McAlevey

The purpose of this paper is to compare responses of house prices in three important markets when faced with permanent and temporary shocks to income. It additionally decomposes…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to compare responses of house prices in three important markets when faced with permanent and temporary shocks to income. It additionally decomposes each historical house price series into its permanent, temporary and deterministic components.

Design/methodology/approach

Using quarterly data over 1973‐2008, two‐variable systems of house prices and income are specified for three major house‐owning economies: New Zealand (NZ), the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States of America (USA).

Findings

NZ and UK housing markets are sensitive to both permanent and temporary shocks to income, while the US market reacts to temporary shocks with the permanent component having a largely insignificant role to play in house price composition. In NZ, the temporary component of house prices has tended to be positive over time, pushing prices higher than they would have been otherwise; while in the UK, both permanent and temporary components have tended to reinforce each other.

Originality/value

The paper uses state‐of‐the‐art methods to analyse the relationships between income and house prices in three economies.

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