26Mar 2021
CEP presents at The International Food Regulatory Analysis Conference 2021

CEP’s Dr Sian Morse-Jones presented RESEARCH on Consumer Attitudes towards Emerging Food Technologies at The International Food Regulatory Analysis Conference 2021.

Dr Sian Morse-Jones contributed to a session on ‘The future of food – what are the new trends and technologies?’ presenting research on Consumer Attitudes towards Emerging Food Technologies conducted for the Food Standards Agency.

The development of new and emerging food technologies and their applications is a fast-growing area. The Food Standards Agency (FSA)’s focus on protecting consumer interests in relation to food means it needs to understand and keep up to date with consumers views towards these technologies.

Sian’s presentation focused on the key findings from a series of public dialogue events held in different parts of the UK to explore views towards GM foods, nanotechnology in foods, food from cloned animals and cultured meat.

The presentation and recording can be accessed on the conference website here

The final reports from the research are available on the FSA’s website here

For more information about this research please contact Dr Sian Morse-Jones (Principal Consultant, CEP)

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18Mar 2021
CEP undertaking a review of evidence on Trends in Recreational Water Use for the Environment Agency

CEP has been awarded a project by the Environment Agency to undertake a review of the evidence on how people use the water environment for recreational activities.

CEP has been commissioned by the Environment Agency to undertake a review of the evidence on how people use the water environment for recreational activities involving being in the water (and potentially full immersion). In addition to desk-based research individual online interviews were conducted with people from key organisations supporting recreational water use  

The way people use water environments is changing. Not only is a broader range of activities (e.g. wild swimming, triathlon, surfing, paddle boarding, canoeing or kayaking) taking place but reasons for visiting water environments is changing. Recreational activities are more frequently taking place outside designated bathing waters as well as outside the traditional bathing season (May – September). This project is investigating these trends with a view to informing future policy decisions on bathing waters. The research is looking at trends in recreational water use in England including: 

  • how members of the public use the water environment, 

  • how has that changed over the last two decades,  

  • what data sources are available that could help the EA to track these trends in numbers and patterns, and  

  • what types of organisations support recreational water use. 

The project started in December 2020 and will run until March 2021. 

For more information, please contact Clare Twigger- Ross (Technical Director, CEP) or Spela Kolaric (Senior Consultant, CEP). 

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