Food safety: Building consumer trust in livestock farmers for potential purchase behaviour

British Food Journal

Volumn 107, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 841-854

  Yee, Wallace M S ^a   Yeung, Ruth M W ^b   Morris, Joe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Food safety; Linear structure equation modelling; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 27644478290     PISSN: 0007070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00070700510629788     Document Type: Article

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