Consumer food safety knowledge and practices in the home in Turkey

Food Control

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 45-51

  Unusan, Nurhan ^a  

^a SELCUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Food safety; Home; Knowledge; Practices

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745408081     PISSN: 09567135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2005.08.006     Document Type: Article

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