Investigating the concept of meat quality from the consumers' perspective: The case of Greece

Meat Science

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 164-176

  Krystallis, Athanasios ^a   Arvanitoyannis, Ioannis S ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Factor and cluster analyses; Intrinsic and extrinsic cues; Meat quality; Safety

Indexed keywords

EID: 27144454033     PISSN: 03091740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meatsci.2005.06.013     Document Type: Article

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