6. Animal Food and Health Sciences 7. Review of Food Labelling Law and Policy Committee (Australia) State Entities: 1. Australian Capital Territory ACT Health (Health Protection Service) – 2. New South Wales NSW Food Authority – 3. Northern Territory NT Department Health, Austlii Northern Territory – Consolidated Acts 4. Queensland Local Government, Public Health Units, Department of – Health (Food Safety Standards and Regulation), Safe Food Production Queensland 5. South Australia Local Government, Department of Primary Industries – and Resources 6. Tasmania Department of Health and Services, Local – Government, Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment 7. Victoria Local Government, Department of Health (Food Safety and – Regulation) 8. Western Australia Local Government, Department of Health (Food – Unit) Exclusion criteria Articles that did not contribute any information on the consumer response to food irradiation, food irradiation labelling or food labelling, and the associated costs and benefits to consumers were excluded. This included papers that: focused on the science or safety of the technology that was not within the of the research questions. focused on food technologies including functional foods, GMOs, etc, without any information that assisted with the research questions. focused on other food labelling including nutritional information, organic status and other information, without any information that would assist with the research questions. focused on food packaging. Papers that did not explicitly refer to food irradiation labelling were included if parallels could be drawn with other types of labelling including GMOs or other methods to provide information (for instance, consumer education). Search results The search of Medline, Embase, Biosis Previews, PubMed, Academic Search Complete, Environment Complete, Business Source Complete and EconLit returned 1800 papers after the removal of duplicates. The Round 1 exclusion
6. Animal Food and Health Sciences 7. Review of Food Labelling Law and Policy Committee (Australia) State Entities: 1. Australian Capital Territory – ACT Health (Health Protection Service) 2. New South Wales – NSW Food Authority 3. Northern Territory – NT Department Health, Austlii Northern Territory Consolidated Acts 4. Queensland – Local Government, Public Health Units, Department of Health (Food Safety Standards and Regulation), Safe Food Production Queensland 5. South Australia – Local Government, Department of Primary Industries and Resources 6. Tasmania – Department of Health and Services, Local Government, Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment 7. Victoria – Local Government, Department of Health (Food Safety and Regulation) 8. Western Australia – Local Government, Department of Health (Food Unit) Exclusion criteria Articles that did not contribute any information on the consumer response to food irradiation, food irradiation labelling or food labelling, and the associated costs and benefits to consumers were excluded. This included papers that: focused on the science or safety of the technology that was not within the of the research questions. focused on food technologies including functional foods, GMOs, etc, without any information that assisted with the research questions. focused on other food labelling including nutritional information, organic status and other information, without any information that would assist with the research questions. focused on food packaging. Papers that did not explicitly refer to food irradiation labelling were included if parallels could be drawn with other types of labelling including GMOs or other methods to provide information (for instance, consumer education). Search results The search of Medline, Embase, Biosis Previews, PubMed, Academic Search Complete, Environment Complete, Business Source Complete and EconLit returned 1800 papers after the removal of duplicates. The Round 1 exclusion