CONSUMER AND MARKET DEMAND AGRICULTURAL POLICY RESEARCH NETWORK

The Wilcoxon signed rank test of the distribution of responses of aggregated Alberta food processor applies to treatments based on the question sets of: “State the risk each of the following poses to the provision of food safety” (treatment one) and “State the risk of each of the following to business performance” (treatment two). [...] These tests rejected the null hypothesis of no differences between the distributions of respondents’ views of the risk to food safety relative to the distribution of respondents’ views of the risk to business performance arising from four of the ten queried hazards at the α = 10% level of significance. [...] 31 Table 13: Comparison of the Importance of Risks to Each of Food Safety Provision and Business Performance for the Aggregate Industry Sample (n=41) Survey question State the risk each of the State the risk of each of the following poses to the provision following to business Factor of food safety 1: performance 2: Employee hygiene 2.63a 2.54d GM sourced ingredients 3.42 3.22 Pathogen contaminati. [...] Thus for “employee hygiene” the distribution of responses within treatment one (in this case: the risk it poses to the provision of food safety.) indicated in the center column, was compared to the distribution of responses for treatment two (which in this case is the risk posed to business performance), indicated in the right hand column. [...] This component of the analysis indicated the importance to adoption of HACCP of the size of: the 43 firm: the larger is the size of the firm, the higher is the probability of HACCP adoption.