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Smigic, Nada Ozilgen, Sibel Gómez-López, Vicente M. Osés Gómez, Sandra María Miloradovic, Zorana Aleksic, Biljana Miocinovic, Jelena Smole Možina, Sonja Kunčič, Ajda Guiné, Raquel Gonçalves, João Carlos Trafialek, Joanna Czarniecka-Skubina, Ewa Goel, Gunjan Blazic, Marijana Herljevic, Dora Nikolić, Aleksandra Mujčinović, Alen Djekic, Ilija Djekic Consumers’ perception Chilled ready-to-eat foods Food handling Food safety Understanding consumers’ behavior and their handling of high-risk foods at home is essential for reducing the number of foodborne illnesses. This study shows the results of a cross-national analysis of consumers’ perception from nine countries, and the identification of customers’ clusters and its characteristics in order to understand customers’ behavior, and to build safe chilled ready-to-eat (RTE) foods prevention strategies. The cluster analysis resulted in two clusters: (1) “Precautious consumers” characterized by the orientation towards pre-packed RTE foods, with consumers mainly coming from Bosnia and Herzegovina, India, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and Turkey. Their attitudes and self-reported practices may be categorized as less risky in terms of food-borne illnesses connected with the consumption of RTE foods; (2) “Unconcerned consumers” preferred cutting and slicing RTE foods freshly at the point of purchase, usually sold at the delicatessen department in a supermarket or at open markets. Those consumers mostly came from Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia and their attitudes and self-reported practices were riskier. These results allow a better understating of what characterizes consumers of RTE foods in different countries. 2024-12-17 2024-12-17 2023-06 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 1661-5751 http://hdl.handle.net/10259/9799 10.1007/s00003-023-01424-1 1661-5867 eng Journal of Consumer Protection and Food Safety. 2023, V. 18, n. 2, p. 133-146 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00003-023-01424-1 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Springer