The media and the message: Risk analysis and compelling food safety information from farm-to-fork

Australian Journal of Dairy Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 55-59

  Powell, D A ^a   Surgeoner, B V ^a   Wilson, S M ^a   Chapman, B J ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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