Who uses food label information: A case study of dietary fat

Journal of Food Products Marketing

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 17-37

  Lin, Chung Tung Jordan ^a   Lee, Jonq Ying ^b  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

CSII; Dietary fat; Food label

Indexed keywords

EID: 13444269309     PISSN: 10454446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J038v10n04_02     Document Type: Article

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