An empirical analysis of United States consumers' concerns about eight food production and processing technologies

AgBioForum

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 40-49

  Hwang, Yun Jae ^a   Roe, Brian ^a   Teisl, Mario F ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumers; Factor analysis; Food; Risk perception; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 21644468588     PISSN: 1522936X     EISSN: 1522936X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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