Standardized inspections of food premises during the 2004 Athens Olympic Games: Descriptive analysis and risk factors for unsatisfactory results

Journal of Food Protection

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1632-1640

  Hadjichristodoulou, Christos ^a,b   Mouchtouri, Varvara ^a,b   Varzakas, Theodoros ^c   Arvanitoyannis, Ioannis ^a   Kremastinou, Jenny ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

^c TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF KALAMATA   (Greece)

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EID: 49449088284     PISSN: 0362028X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4315/0362-028X-71.8.1632     Document Type: Article

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