Consumers' responses to front vs. Back package GM labels in Japan

Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 85-109

  Matsumoto, Shigeru ^a  

^a KANSAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Choice experiment; Genetically modified food; Label; Memory recall experiment

Indexed keywords

EID: 13444262572     PISSN: 15420485     EISSN: 15420485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1542-0485.1050     Document Type: Article

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