Good food in family day care: Improving nutrition and food safety in family day care

Nutrition and Dietetics

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 47-55

  Bravo, Andy ^a   Cass, Yona ^a   Tranter, Dian ^a  

^a South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra Area Health Service   (Australia)

Author keywords

Child care; Family day care; Food safety; Health promotion; Nutrition

Indexed keywords

EID: 40149085110     PISSN: 14466368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0080.2007.00136.x     Document Type: Article

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