Food safety concerns and biotechnology: Consumers' attitudes to genetically modified products in urban China

AgBioForum

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 158-175

  Ho, Peter ^a,c   Vermeer, Eduard B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Department of International Development Studies ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Biosafety; Consumer resistance; Genetically modified food; Labeling; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 25444482098     PISSN: 1522936X     EISSN: 1522936X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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