Stručni rad
Impact of bird influenza occurrence on consumption of poultry products
Zlata Gajčević
Zoran Škrtić
Gordana Kralik
Sažetak
In the Republic of Croatia, 19.03 kg of poultry meat is consumed per person yearly. Besides the significant consumption of poultry meat, it is important to mention egg consumption that amounted to 8.15 kg per person in 2004. Taking into consideration these data, as well as the fact that in our region the presence of H5N1 avian influenza virus was confirmed, the study was carried out to determine the impact of bird influenza occurrence on the consumption of poultry products. The study involved 200 examinees from continental Croatia, where cases of avian influenza in birds were reported. The questionnaire showed that consumers opted mostly for chicken meat (70.51%), then for turkey meat (23.93%), duck meat (3.85%) and lastly for geese meat (1.71%). The majority of examinees acquired information on bird influenza occurrence from electronic media (67%) and publications (27.5%), while a small percentage of them obtained the same information by verbal communication (5.5%). The question how the H5N1 virus was transmitted to humans, examinees answered that it was transmitted by a direct contact with birds (58.59%), but they did not fear pandemics, i.e. virus transmittance from person to person (92%). As many as 87% of examinees believed that veterinary service had undertaken all necessary measures to prevent the spread of bird influenza virus. Because of that, the majority of them did not reduce their consumption of poultry products (meat 89.5% and eggs 86%) after the bird influenza occurred in our country. Most examinees (97.5%) declared that they did not fear the bird influenza virus infection and that they would consume poultry products as before.
Ključne riječi
Avian influenza; poultry products; consumers; consumption
Hrčak ID:
4502
URI
Datum izdavanja:
10.7.2006.
Posjeta: 1.264 *