The opinion of town population in Slovenia about contamination of agricultural products with pesticide residues
1997
Macek, J. (Biotechnical Faculty, Ljubljana (Slovenia). Agronomy Dept.)
In Slovenia regionally representative monitoring of contamination of agricultural products is being performed for twenty years (1973-1992). Generally, the contamination is very low if not negligible. Accordingly, we wanted to investigate the opinion of town population in Slovenia about the contamination of these products. An extensive questionary including more than 2000 respondents was applied. The results show that 70 per cent of all the respondents consider pesticide residues the most important food contamimants when speaking of plant products, this number decreases to 61 per cent when speaking of food of animal origin. It is obvious that this general opinion has nothing to do with the actual state of affairs. About 70-80 per cent of consumers are willing to by alternatively grown products in the case that they were only up to 10 per cent more expensive.
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