Will capacity building training interventions given to street food vendors give us safer food?: A cross-sectional study from India

Food Control

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1233-1239

  Choudhury, Manisha ^a,b   Mahanta, Lipi B ^c   Goswami, Jayashree Sarmah ^a   Mazumder, Meenakshi Dutta ^a  

^a Handique Girls' College   (India)

^b NRHM   (India)

^c INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDY IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Capacity building training; Food safety; Hygiene; Street food

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953800517     PISSN: 09567135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2011.01.023     Document Type: Article

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