Ensuring a safe food supply: The importance of heterogeneity

Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Graff Zivin, Joshua S ^a,b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Department of Health Policy and Management ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Food safety; Health; Risk regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751050104     PISSN: 15420485     EISSN: 15420485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1542-0485.1119     Document Type: Article

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