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Salud colectiva
Print version ISSN 1669-2381On-line version ISSN 1851-8265
Abstract
ZAFRA APARICI, Eva; MUNOZ GARCIA, Araceli and LARREA-KILLINGER, Cristina. Do we know what we eat?: Perceptions regarding food risks in Catalonia, Spain. Salud colect. [online]. 2016, vol.12, n.4, pp.505-518. ISSN 1669-2381. http://dx.doi.org/10.18294/sc.2016.932.
This article describes and analyzes social perceptions regarding food risks in Catalonia (Spain). In particular it uses the narratives of informants to determine which foods are perceived as dangerous and how, when, where and why this perception of risk develops. Through a qualitative research study, we explored how lay discourses are constructed and managed, creating diverse imaginaries regarding food risk that do not always coincide with the biomedical view. It is highlighted that food risk is not always associated with the dangers of progress or industrialization, nor is it necessarily focused on the dichotomous debate of “industrially produced food” versus “natural food”; rather food risk perceptions revolve around a series of possibilities that are also related to the production, distribution, preparation and/or consumption of food.
Keywords : Feeding; Risk; Perception; Personal Narratives; Spain.