Socio-demographic influence of food additives acceptance and avoidance among the Lebanese population: A cross-sectional study

• Reham E. Kotb,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Environmental and Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Abu Dhabi University, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Department of Primary Health Care, High Institute of Public Health, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt

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• Souheil Hallit,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Jounieh, Lebanon, Psychology Department, College of Humanities, Effat University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Applied Sciences Research Center, Applied Science Private University, Amman, Jordan

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• Farah Asmar,

  Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, Lebanese University, Fanar, Lebanon

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• Melissa Fakhry,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, Lebanese University, Fanar, Lebanon

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• Chadia Haddad,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Research Department, Psychiatric Hospital of the Cross, Jal Eddib, Lebanon, Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon, INSPECT-LB (Institut National de Santé Publique, d’Épidémiologie Clinique et de Toxicologie-Liban), Beirut, Lebanon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2413-2684

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• Pascale Salameh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon, INSPECT-LB (Institut National de Santé Publique, d’Épidémiologie Clinique et de Toxicologie-Liban), Beirut, Lebanon, Department of Primary Care and Population Health, University of Nicosia Medical School, Nicosia, Cyprus, Faculty of Pharmacy, Lebanese University, Hadat, Lebanon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4780-0772

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• Samar Younes,

  Roles Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations INSPECT-LB (Institut National de Santé Publique, d’Épidémiologie Clinique et de Toxicologie-Liban), Beirut, Lebanon, Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Lebanese International University, Bekaa, Lebanon

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• Mohammed Hossni,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Pharmacy, Specialty of Pharmaceutical Management and Economics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Egyptian Russian University, Badr City, Cairo Governorate, Egypt

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• Mohamad Abdelkhalik,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon

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• Michelle Cherfane ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: michele.cherfane@lau.edu.lb

  ¶Michelle Cherfane and Katia Iskandar are last co-authors

  Affiliations Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon, INSPECT-LB (Institut National de Santé Publique, d’Épidémiologie Clinique et de Toxicologie-Liban), Beirut, Lebanon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6438-0159

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• Katia Iskandar

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶Michelle Cherfane and Katia Iskandar are last co-authors

  Affiliations INSPECT-LB (Institut National de Santé Publique, d’Épidémiologie Clinique et de Toxicologie-Liban), Beirut, Lebanon, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Lebanese International University, Beirut, Lebanon, Department of Health and Social Work, School of Public Health, Lebanese University, Fanar, Lebanon

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