The food labels that companies use on their products can change based on customer desires and expectations, especially if industrial label printer systems make it easier to manufacture new labels on a large scale after the changes have been made.
Researchers at Oklahoma State University polled American consumers on the general concerns they have when it comes to purchasing and consuming food products, particularly those containing meat.
Among the findings presented in this study are the things that shoppers are more and less worried about as measured over the course of a year, from January 2014 to this month. These worries include the presence of certain unsavory elements in these products, such as antibiotics, pink slime, salmonella and bird flu.
Another important statistic is that many are interested in whether or not a product has DNA, as the report on the survey says.
“A large majority (82 percent) support mandatory labels on GMOs, but curiously about the same amount (80 percent) also support mandatory labels on foods containing DNA,” the source says.
Compared to that, more than 86 percent actually support the controversial “country of origin” meat labels, which some have said are especially bad for the meat industries in countries neighboring the United States. Many consumers also said that they do not support bans or taxes on common ingredients like trans fats and sugary sodas.
In some cases, a simple graphic informing the public of what the item does or doesn’t contain could be enough to make the item more appealing. Products with high-quality labels have a better chance of pleasing customers by presenting them with the information they are most interested in and making sure it is readable.
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