The Rlationship Between Awareness of Consumer Protection Mechanisms and Methods of Reducing Fraud in Food Products

Abdullah Rady, Amr Mohammed; Abdel Gawad, Nagwa Sayed; Jaber Al Masry, Hany

doi:10.21608/esm.2024.350717

The Rlationship Between Awareness of Consumer Protection Mechanisms and Methods of Reducing Fraud in Food Products

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Researcher in the Department of Family and Childhood Institutions Management - Faculty of Home Economics - Helwan University

² Professor and former head of the Department of Family and Childhood Institutions Management - Faculty of Home Economics - Helwan University

³ Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences - Faculty of Home Economics - Helwan University

10.21608/esm.2024.350717

Abstract

The research aims to identify the extent of awareness of the research sample families of consumer protection mechanisms and its axes (the knowledge aspect, the preventive aspect, the regulatory aspect, the legislative aspect) and reduce adulteration in some food products.
The main research sample consisted of (200) newly formed families with at least one child, belonging to different economic, educational and social levels - and residents of the governorates of Cairo and Giza, and from the population of Cairo and Giza governorates.
The researcher used the general and special data form for the family, (Awareness questionnaire of consumer protection mechanisms for the head of the family and its four axes), (Awareness questionnaire of the head of the family of methods of reducing commercial fraud in food products), and the researcher used the analytical descriptive method.
The research results found that there are statistically significant differences at (0. 01) between the mean scores of the research sample families in the level of consumer protection mechanisms and its four axes according to the study variables (educational level of the head of the family, the number of family members, and the average monthly income of the family), and the results were in favor of female heads of families with a higher educational level, fewer family members, and families with high monthly income.
It was also found that there are statistically significant differences at the level of significance (0.01) in the methods of reducing commercial fraud in food products as a whole and (meat and dairy products) according to the average monthly income of the family in favor of high-income families, and a statistically significant correlation was found at the level of significance (0.01) between the average scores of awareness of consumer protection mechanisms as a whole and its four axes and the level of the head of the household in the methods of reducing commercial fraud as a whole and (meat and dairy products).
A statistically significant positive correlation was found at the significance level (0.01) between the total consumer protection mechanisms for female heads of household and its aspects (knowledge, preventive, regulatory, legislative) and each of the study variables (mother's educational level, number of family members, average monthly income of the family).

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