Food safety and fear: Factors affecting consumer response to food safety risk

International Food and Agribusiness Management Review

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-11

  Baker, Gregory A ^a  

^a SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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