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Table II

The five categories of food scares synthesised from previous categorisations

Category	Definition	Paper
Information	Provision of information to consumers concerning the ingredients and processes which are used in production of a food item	Brewer et al. (1994) and Brewer and Prestat (2002)
Deception	Fraudulent substitution, addition or subtraction of ingredients to food items	Brewer et al. (1994) and Brewer and Prestat (2002)
Technology	Technological interventions such as GM and irradiation	Frewer et al. (1994) and Yeung and Morris (2001)
Contaminant	Contamination of food items with anything that is not naturally found in the food item	Knowles et al. (2007)
Microbiology	Contamination of food items by microorganisms found in the air, food, water, soil, animals and human body	Knowles et al. (2007), Yeung and Morris (2001), Sanders (1999) and Frewer et al. (1994)

Category	Definition	Paper
Information	Provision of information to consumers concerning the ingredients and processes which are used in production of a food item	Brewer et al. (1994) and Brewer and Prestat (2002)
Deception	Fraudulent substitution, addition or subtraction of ingredients to food items	Brewer et al. (1994) and Brewer and Prestat (2002)
Technology	Technological interventions such as GM and irradiation	Frewer et al. (1994) and Yeung and Morris (2001)
Contaminant	Contamination of food items with anything that is not naturally found in the food item	Knowles et al. (2007)
Microbiology	Contamination of food items by microorganisms found in the air, food, water, soil, animals and human body	Knowles et al. (2007), Yeung and Morris (2001), Sanders (1999) and Frewer et al. (1994)