Who is looking for nutritional food labels?

EuroChoices

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 18-23

  Drichoutis, Andreas C ^a   Lazaridis, Panagiotis ^a   Nayga Jr , Rodolfo M ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; FOOD CONSUMPTION;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 20544467203     PISSN: 14780917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1746-692X.2005.tb00102.x     Document Type: Article

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