Survey of health claims for Australian foods made on Internet sites

Nutrition and Dietetics

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 139-147

  Dragicevich, Helen ^a   Williams, Peter ^a   Ridges, Leisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Advertising; Food standard; Health claim; Internet

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747201919     PISSN: 14466368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0080.2006.00063.x     Document Type: Article

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