Barriers to the adoption of quality assurance systems in the food and beverage sector

Stewart Postharvest Review

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1-5

  Küpper, Georg ^a   Batt, Peter J ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adoption; Barriers; Benefits; Food sector; Quality assurance; SMEs

Indexed keywords

EID: 73549112691     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17459656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2212/spr.2009.3.2     Document Type: Review

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