Using a survey approach, the study examined how experts, producers (i.e. persons working in the food chain) and consumers prioritized control activities for 28 hazards related to food and other everyday items. The investigated hazards encompassed a wide range of safety issues, including health risks, consumer deception and poor food hygiene behaviour. The participants included 41 experts, 138 producers and 243 consumers from the German- and French-speaking parts of Switzerland. Based on detailed descriptions of the hazards, they were asked to rank these on a score sheet in terms of the perceived importance of monitoring by food control authorities. A between-group comparison of average rankings showed that consumers and experts differed significantly in relation to 17 of the 28 hazards. While the experts assigned higher priority to hazards related to everyday items such as nitrosamine in mascara and chromium VI in leather products, producers and consumers tended to prioritize products related to plant treatment and genetic modification of food and feeds. Producer and consumer rankings of the hazards were highly correlated (r = .96, p < .001). Rankings were also similar among participants from the two cultural regions (i.e. Germanand French-speaking parts of Switzerland)

该研究使用一种调查方法，研究了专家，生产者（即在食物链中工作的人）和消费者如何对与食品和其他日常用品有关的28种危害进行优先控制。调查的危害包括广泛的安全问题，包括健康风险，消费者欺骗和不良的食品卫生行为。与会者包括来自瑞士德语和法语地区的41位专家，138位生产者和243位消费者。根据对危害的详细描述，要求他们根据食品控制机构认为监测的重要性在评分表上对这些危害进行排名。小组之间的平均排名比较显示，消费者和专家在28种危害中有17种存在显着差异。尽管专家们将与日常用品相关的危害（如睫毛膏中的亚硝胺和皮革产品中的六价铬）放在了优先位置，但生产商和消费者倾向于将与植物处理以及食品和饲料的基因改造有关的产品放在优先位置。生产者和消费者对危害的排名高度相关（r = .96，p <.001）。来自两个文化区域（即瑞士的德语和法语地区）的参与者的排名也相似