Transgenic Quality Characteristics and Economic Analysis of Food

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10.2991/etmhs-16.2016.189How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Genetically modified; Food quality; Information asymmetry; Consumer preferences

Abstract

With the development of transgenic technology, transgenic food is more and more common, which has attracted a great deal of controversy. This article expounded the quality of the food transgenic characteristics of meanings from the product analysis, and analyzed the quality of genetically modified food with the help of the existing economic theory. Genetically modified characteristics of food contain two levels. One type is genetically modified ingredients, influence of genetically modified ingredients for food use value, the society and environment. The other type is the presence of genetically modified ingredients in food, and levels of genetically modified ingredients. In the study of economics, the genetically modified features of food has important meaning, which was showed by the food genetically modified distribution and inspection of quality information, as well as the consumers’ preference difference, cognitive and stability.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jing Han
AU  - Hui Wang
PY  - 2016/01
DA  - 2016/01
TI  - Transgenic Quality Characteristics and Economic Analysis of Food
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 2nd International Conference on Education Technology, Management and Humanities Science
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 878
EP  - 882
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/etmhs-16.2016.189
DO  - 10.2991/etmhs-16.2016.189
ID  - Han2016/01
ER  -