This Special Eurobarometer, commissioned by EFSA, provides insights in terms of: Europeans’ overall interest in food safety, including factors affecting food-related decisions, main information channels on food-related risks, changes in behaviour and views on complexity of communication about food-related risks. Awareness and risk perceptions when it comes to food safety topics, trust in different sources of information and understanding of the EU food safety system The survey was carried out by the Kantar network in the 28 EU Member States between the 9th and 26th of April 2019. Some 27,655 respondents from different social and demographic groups were interviewed face-to-face at home in their mother tongue. Additional data was collected during November 2019 in the following pre-accession countries: Albania, Montenegro, Serbia, North Macedonia and Turkey. The methodology used is that of the Standard Eurobarometer surveys carried out by the Directorate-General for Communication. It is the same for all countries and territories covered in the survey. The datasets published are distributed as follows: Volume A: Countries Volume AA: Groups of countries Volume B: EU/socio-demographics Volume C: Country/socio-demographics Microdata Disclaimer > In accordance with Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data applicable to EFSA, some data elements were excluded from the eb_91.3_EFSA_Microdata file published hereby, in order to prevent that individual respondents may be identifiable. The excluded data elements include occupation and the region of respondent’s residence within the country.

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