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](https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer)