European consumers' use of and trust in information sources about fish

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1050-1063

  Pieniak, Zuzanna ^a   Verbeke, Wim ^a   Scholderer, Joachim ^b   Brunsø, Karen ^b   Olsen, Svein Ottar ^c,d  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b AARHUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (Denmark)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Consumer; Fish; Information; Label; Segments

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547604126     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2007.05.001     Document Type: Article

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