“We are extremely pleased to include – for the first time – all seven pre-accession countries in this follow-up survey to our 2022 Eurobarometer on food safety,” said Barbara Gallani, Head of EFSA’s Communications and Partnership Department.

The survey was carried out between 31 May and 25 June 2023 with over 6,600 respondents from different social and demographic groups being interviewed face-to-face at home or online in their mother tongue.

As well as factsheets in English and all local national languages, the pre-accession countries’ communications expert can sift the findings – on citizens’ food safety awareness, concerns, information sources – using an EFSA data dashboard.

Ms Gallani stated: “Together with our partners in EU Member States and in pre-accession countries our cooperation on communication has benefitted from generating insights from social research like the Eurobarometer. We can better understand the concerns and needs of audiences to help make our…