Beliefs, attitude and behaviour towards fresh meat revisited after the Belgian dioxin crisis

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 489-498

  Verbeke, Wim ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Belgium; Consumer behaviour; Dioxin; Meat

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011763512     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0950-3293(01)00042-8     Document Type: Article

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