This study attempted to understand the perception and the degree of trust that consumers had in the national agricultural food accreditation system, to inquire into and examine the consumers' perception of traditional food quality certification performed for the protection of excellent traditional food, and to propose the right direction for the policies on the traditional food quality certification system and the plans to improve consumers' perception of the system. According to the results of this survey performed in married women, based on the 'the recognition of accreditation system' and 'the recognition of certification marks' of 'the seventh national agricultural food accreditation system' presently being used by the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, the household food purchasers showed high recognition for eco-friendly agricultural product accreditation, processed food KS certification, and organically processed food certification in that order. Meanwhile, it was shown that they indicated low recognition for the traditional food-related accreditation systems such as 'traditional food quality certification' and 'food grand master'. It was found that reliability of the certification mark provided by the agricultural food accreditation system gained 3.54 points (on a 5-point scale), and 68.1% of the study subjects referred to the certification marks while purchasing agricultural foods. And most of them answered to the question of 'why they referred to the certification marks' saying that it was done 'to choose safe food'. The most frequent answer to question of 'the means to recognize the traditional food quality certification system' was 'broadcasting, advertising'. 57.3% of the subjects had a previous experience of buying a product certified by the traditional food quality certification system, and 93.2% of all the subjects had the intention to buy a product certified by the traditional food quality certification system later. And most of them answered that 'strengthening government policies' would be the most ideal way to inform the public of the traditional food quality certification system. According to the results of this study, while 'relying on the traditional food quality certification system in general' was relatively high among the consumers, 'intention to buy quality certified products by visiting a distantly located store' was low; thus, from this analysis, it can be seen that there is a need for diversification of places selling these quality certified products and to establish a distribution network for these products.

어린이 먹거리 안전관리 사업의 일환으로 어린이 식품 품질인증제도 연구를 수행하였다. 이 중 어린이 눈높이에 맞는 친숙한 브랜드 이미지 구축을 통하여 식품자체의 안전성을 확보함과 동시에 어린이에게 올바른 식품선택기준과 기회를 제공하기 위한 품질 인증마크를 개발하였다. 눈높이는 8~13세의 초등학생으로 하였고, “안전한 식품, 바른 영양, 건강한 어린이”라는 식약청 vision에 따라 로고 컨셉은 안심·미소, 인증·검증·보호, 건강으로 하였다. 명칭은 식약청내 공모를 통해 제안된「어린이용우수식품」, 「어린이안심식품」,「어린이우수식품」등 세 가지 안으로 하였으며, 명칭에 따라 총 36가지의 품질인증 로고시안을 제안하였다. 설문지는 이 중「어린이우수식품」으로 디자인된 12가지 시안으로 구성하였고, 초등학교 학부모(331명) 및 어린이(321명)를 대상으로 설문 조사를 실시하였다. 학부모와 어린이의 선호도를 종합한 결과 시안 8이 16.1%로 가장 높고, 시안 6(15.5%), 시안 3(14.0%) 순임을 알 수 있었다. 이러한 연구결과를 토대로 어린이 먹거리 안전성 확보 사업의 기반을 구축하여 어린이 기호식품에 대한 부모와 어린이의 선택권을 강화할 수 있으며, 바르고 안전한 식품을 선별하기 위한 검증으로 어린이 건강을 보호할 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.