Ayse Gulin Eser

This study was conducted to determine the willingness of Turkish consumers in various socio-demographic groups to try, consume, and pay for in-vitro meat. The study was applied to potential participants through social media via Google Forms in the form of a questionnaire, and 989 responses were collected. Males were more willing than females to try in-vitro meat, consume it regularly, and try it when recommended. People who have master's and doctoral degrees are more willing to try in-vitro meat compared to those with other education levels. Related professionals, students, and health workers are more willing to try in-vitro meat directly and even more willing to try it, if recommended, than other occupational groups. The willingness to try, to consume regularly, and to try on recommendations were higher in the Mediterranean, Aegean, and Central Anatolia regions compared to others. Compared to individuals with one or two children, those without children and those with three or more children were found to be more willing to try in-vitro meat and to try if recommended. In-vitro meat is not yet commercially marketed in TürkiyeTurkey, and this study addresses the perceptions and opinions of consumer groups in different socio-economic statuses about in-vitro meat.

This study aims to determine Turkish consumers' perceptions and attitudes toward in vitro meat and to investigate the relationship between their perceptions and their willingness to try and consume it. The questionnaire was distributed to potential participants via social media, and the responses of 989 participants were evaluated. The responses regarding the extent to which participants agreed with 32 opinions about in vitro meat were analysed using principal component analysis (PCA). As a result of PCA, four components were obtained explaining 63.3% of the total variance: i) benefits for the environment, and human and animal welfare; ii) safety and reliability; iii) social and ethical concerns; and iv) concerns about being unnatural. Regression equations developed with these components were able to moderately explain (R² ranged between 0.547 and 0.583) the variance observed in consumers' willingness to try, regularly consume, replace conventional meat with and try in vitro meat when recommended by a friend.

Amaç: Günümüzde gıda kaynaklı birçok hastalık bulunmaktadır. Bakteriler, virüsler ve fungusların yanısıra parazitlerin de gıda kaynaklı hastalıklara sebep olduğu bildirilmektedir. Protozoa (örneğin Cryptosporidium spp., Toxoplasma spp.) ve helmintleri (örneğin karaciğer ve bağırsak parazitleri; Fasciola spp., Echinococcus spp., Anisakis spp., Trichinella spp.) içeren bu parazitler doğada hep var olmuşlar, çeşitli nedenlerle yayılım göstermişler ve gıdalara çeşitli yollarla bulaşmışlardır. Bu patojenlerin gıdalara bulaşmasında evcilleştirilmiş ve vahşi pek çok hayvan da taşıyıcı olarak rol oynamıştır. Gıda kaynaklı parazitlerin bazıları zoonotik özellik göstermektedir. Her birinin yaşam siklusları karmaşık ve farklıdır. Bu çalışmada, gıda kaynaklı parazitler genel bir bakış açısı ile değerlendirilmiştir. Sonuç: Bu derlemede, gıda kaynaklı parazitlerin gıda güvenliği ve halk sağlığı açısından önemi, epidemiyolojisi, gıdalara bulaşma yolları, risk değerlendirmesi ve kontrol önlemleri literatür eşliğinde değerlendirilmiştir.