Table 7.
Food safety and health incidents that consumers considered to have seriously affected their lives: households with and without young children, divided between those who did and did not report reduced consumption of fluid milk.
| No children (n = 273) |
With childrena (n = 77) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Did not reduce fluid milk (233) |
Reduced fluid milk (40) |
Did not reduce fluid milk (68) |
Reduced fluid milk (8) |
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| n | Nb% | n | Nb% | n | Nb% | n | Nb% | |
| Melamine in milk | 85 | 10.0 | 17 | 11.6 | 27 | 14.6 | 4 | 18.4 |
| Trace Sudan in chicken | 79 | 9.3 | 18 | 12.3 | 10 | 5.4 | 2 | 9.1 |
| Clenbuterol in pork | 100 | 11.8 | 18 | 12.3 | 15 | 8.1 | 3 | 13.8 |
| Inferior milk powder | 52 | 6.1 | 11 | 7.5 | 12 | 6.5 | 2 | 9.1 |
| Chicken eggs with red yolks | 78 | 9.2 | 10 | 6.9 | 12 | 6.5 | 2 | 9.1 |
| Injected water in meat | 129 | 15.2 | 26 | 17.8 | 29 | 15.7 | 4 | 18.4 |
| Expired fluid milk | 25 | 2.9 | 5 | 3.4 | 3 | 1.6 | 0 | 0 |
| Excess iodine in milk powder | 38 | 4.5 | 8 | 5.5 | 4 | 2.2 | 1 | 4.6 |
| SARS | 98 | 11.5 | 27 | 18.5 | 31 | 16.7 | 5 | 22.9 |
| H1N1 | 144 | 16.9 | 26 | 17.8 | 40 | 21.6 | 3 | 13.8 |
a
Children are defined as being less than six years of age at the time of the survey.
b
Percentages have been weighted (normalized) by the number of food safety and health issues checked by each respondent. Totals may not add to 100% due to rounding.