Special Eurobarometer 314: Europeans attitudes toward chemicals in consumer products: Risk perception of potential health hazards

This report presents the results of a survey on Europeans' perceptions and attitudes toward chemical products, which was carried out in January-February 2009.
Main findings
In detail, the survey measures:
- Perceived consumer products that contain chemicals posing a risk to the user.
- For household cleaning products and hair dyes: perceived risk, potential negative health effects and usage behaviour.
- For sunscreen: perceived risk, meaning of “dermatologically tested” sunscreen, usage behaviour.
- For clothing fabrics: perceived risk, perceived health risk of various clothing types, importance placed on risk when buying clothing.
- Information about and protection against harmful chemicals.

The results by volumes are distributed as follows:

• Volume A: Countries
• Volume AA: Groups of countries
• Volume A' (AP): Trends
• Volume AA' (AAP): Trends of groups of countries
• Volume B: EU/socio-demographics
• Volume B' (BP) : Trends of EU/ socio-demographics
• Volume C: Country/socio-demographics

Researchers may also contact GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences: https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer