European consumer acceptance of safety-improving interventions in the beef chain

Food Control

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1776-1784

  Van Wezemael, Lynn ^a   Verbeke, Wim ^a   Kügler, Jens O ^b   Scholderer, Joachim ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Beef; Consumer; Information; Safety; Technology

Indexed keywords

BOS;

EID: 79957815266     PISSN: 09567135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2011.04.017     Document Type: Article

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