Agriculture and food quality and safety certification agencies in four Chinese cities

Food Control

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 627-630

  Fan, Hongping ^a,b   Ye, Zhihua ^a   Zhao, Weijun ^c   Tian, Heshan ^a   Qi, Yamei ^a   Busch, Lawrence ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INSTITUTE   (China)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Certification agencies; China; Quality and safety of agro food

Indexed keywords

EID: 60849136909     PISSN: 09567135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2008.09.013     Document Type: Article

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