| Abstract [eng] |
The aim of this study was to assess the approach to GMO’s of drugstore’s worker’s. In order to realize the overall aim, three goals were established: to assess the knowledge of drugstore’s worker’s about GMO; to assess the drugstore’s worker’s approach to GMO risk to the environment and human health; to compare the results with the study of “Spinter” where was evaluated publics approach to GMO’s 2009. Methods. Drugstore’s workers were interviewed by anonymous questionnaire. 150 respondents were interviewed in total: 75 from Vilnius and 75 from Ukmergė and Šakiai. The results were processed using the statistical package SPSS/w 15 and traditional statistic methods. Results. Exploring the drugstore’s worker’s opinion about GMO, there was found that the opinion about GMO was negative of 67,3% of respondents. 14% of respondents knew about GMO and GMP enough, 60% of respondents knew about GMO just a little, but wanted to get more information. 46% of respondents thought that live stocks are foddering with GM fodders which are made abroad. 41% of respondents thought that live stocks are foddering with GM fodders which are made from cultures witch were grown in Lithuania. Most of respondents – 64,7% assumed that they would like to have a right to choose while buying and using GMO. 58% of respondents wouldn’t want to use GM food, 48,7% of respondents – would use GM food only if they had the evidences that GMO is no harmful. Most of drugstores’ workers suggested that food additives should be sold only in drugstores. Many respondents also said that food additives’ importance for the nourishment is too much prominent and there is a distrust of the information which was showed on the information label. Respondents expressed the trust in the information which is given by the people who are working with GMO directly: scientists and medics. The less trust was showed in the institutions of government, media and in the public organizations. Conclusions. The study showed that 67,3% of drugstore’s workers assess GMO negative, although just 14% respondents said they have enough information. Many respondents (51,3%) don’t accept any GMO’s in Lithuania. 32,7% of respondents didn’t know if they would buy food with GMO because 69,3% of respondents saw that there are GMO in a product only at home. And if there would be arguments that GMO are not harmful – this wouldn’t help to decide about using GMO because 51,4% of respondents wouldn’t want to use GM food. Exploring respondent’s opinion about the harm of GMO it was found that GMO are harmful to human (53,3%), to animals (41,3%) and to the environment (35,3%). Respondents who thought that GMO are harmful mostly were concerned about the negative future influence; others were concerned about the diseases caused by GMO. The most relevant information for the respondents was about the impact on human health (94,7%). Respondents trust in the information produced by scientists (76%) and medics (44,7%) the most. |
