Food consumption accounts for almost one-third of households' total environmental impact. Nowadays, consumption patterns throughout Europe are totally different from those of couple years ago, Slovakia is no exception. At an individual level, people's consumption patterns are shaped by their needs, abilities and opportunities. Exploring and understanding consumers' attitudes toward sustainable food consumption tendences is a key element to a better future for every country. This paper presents an analysis of the current situation regarding sustainable food habits among Slovak consumers. The main aim is to determine the level of consumer awareness for sustainable food consumption and food waste through purchasing decisions. Marketing research was conducted as a part of European project in five partner countries, we present results for Slovakia. Based on the analysis, we will be able in future to define limitations and opportunities in the form of recommendations in future. The findings of this paper have significant contributions and may encourage the process for the discussions and to provide the basis for educational content to help adults develop their skills and behaviors to make food consumption more sustainable.

This article proposes a comprehensive introduction into the analysis and calculating costs and identifies the different areas of activities in company which can lead to improving the quality and reducing costs by using the PAF cost model. The basic precondition for quality improvement in company is understanding of the process and its control with regard to the objectives which should be achieved. PAF model is the most frequently used model for the quality costs analysis at present. In today's competitive environment, what all organizations consider as the first priority is to provide the customers with the highest quality for the best price. This can be achieved by setting optimal quality costs.

The aim of the present paper was to realize the Slovak consumer's opinion about the purchase and quality level of food available on the Slovak market, as well as to realize their knowledge and preference of Quality Label “Značka kvality SK”. As research methods, there have been used the methods of survey and structured questionnaire. The total number of respondents was 2.808 randomly selected respondents. For a deeper analysis of the obtained results, there have been set out assumptions, which have been tested with the use of Pearson's chi-square test, Fisher's exact test, Mann-Whitney U-Test and Cramer's contingency coefficient. The results of the present paper show, that the knowledge and preference of higher quality food is between Slovak consumers on a pretty high level – more than 44% respondents think that in their purchase they choose higher quality food, more than 28% of respondents think that the food produced in Slovak Republic is rather higher quality, more than 58% of respondents know the Quality Label “Značka kvality SK” and over 56% of respondents could describe its logo