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Concerns about food safety issues in Germany in 2024

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Release date

July 2024

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Region

Germany

Survey time period

February 2024

Number of respondents

1,000 respondents

Age group

16 years and older

Special properties

Private households

Method of interview

Computer-assisted telephone interviews (CATI)

Supplementary notes

¹ Scale from 1 to 5 whereby 1 stands for "not worried". The scale values of 4 and 5 ("worried") are depicted in this statistic. Multiple answers were possible.

The BfR (Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung/German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment) Consumer Monitor is a key instrument of consumer health protection as it provides a representative population survey every six months that provides answers to the public's concerns about consumer health issues.

² Surveyed for the first time.

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German consumers were most worried about microplastics in food and antibiotic resistance components as of February 2024. These figures are revealed in a survey conducted among the German population, asking to what extent consumers were personally worried about the health and consumer issues listed in this graph.

Food safety

Most recently, the German Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (Bundesamt für Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit, BVL) issued ***warnings about food products. This office is the leading national authority, on a government level, for measures relating to food safety in Germany. The BVL also contributes to the exchange of warnings about food products between German Federal States and other EU countries. Various reasons led consumers to buy organic groceries, the leading being concern for animal welfare, consuming food that was as unprocessed as possible and support of regional companies.

Organic consumption

The majority of organic food product revenue in Germany was generated through food retailers (including drugstores), with around billlion euros in 2023. On a global scale, Germany still had some catching up to do regarding eating organically. In terms of per capita organic food consumption, the leading three countries in the world were Denmark, Switzerland and Sweden.