Consumer interpretation of the term food safety

Acta Alimentaria

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 437-448

  Jevsnik M ^a   Hlebec, V ^a   Raspor, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Consumer; Food safety; Qualitative content analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 56049113513     PISSN: 01393006     EISSN: 15882535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/AAlim.2008.0018     Document Type: Article

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