Willingness-to-pay measures of food safety regulatory benefits

Toward Safer Food: Perspectives on Risk and Priority Setting

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 241-260

  Hammitt, James K ^a  

^a HARVARD CENTER FOR RISK ANALYSIS   (United States)

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EID: 77956419442     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781936331529     Document Type: Chapter

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