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Do Text Based Warning Labels Work?

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I do not know about you, but at times it seems to me that society is starting to experience “warning label” fatigue. Think about the vast amount of products you can find in a store that have some sort of text-based warning label on them. Have you ever noticed them or have any caught your attention? More importantly, how often do any of these labels really influence your behavior?

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Yiannas, F. (2015). Do Text Based Warning Labels Work?. In: Food Safety = Behavior. Food Microbiology and Food Safety(). Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2489-9_20

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