Economic assessment of food safety standards: Costs and benefits of alternative approaches

Food Control

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1611-1619

  Traill, W Bruce ^a   Koenig, Ariane ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Cost benefit; Food safety economics; Impact assessment; QALY

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956415766     PISSN: 09567135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2009.06.018     Document Type: Article

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