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This chapter presents the results of the analysis of how Romanian online media communicate about alerts on the recall of products infected with Listeria Monocytogenes, Salmonella, E. Coli or containing substances/foreign bodies. The research methodology was a content analysis of articles identified in online media. We selected all items containing information about alerts targeting products marketed in urban stores. In the analysis were included articles published between 1 January 2019 and 1 January 2020. The analysis grid was structured to allow the identification of information on media type, time interval, sources of information, type of information communicated, information on symptoms, information on health consequences, risk population categories, recommendations on consumer protection measures and the categories of people who communicate about alerts (experts, doctors, store representatives or institutions supervising the quality of products).
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Balica, E. (2020). Romanian Online Media and Public Health Threats: Case Study Incidents with Food in Urban Areas. In: Marinescu, V. (eds) Food, Nutrition and the Media. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46500-1_17
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