Hygiene knowledge and practices of night market food vendors in Tainan City, Taiwan

Food Control

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 159-164

  Sun, Yi Mei ^a   Wang, Shu Tai ^b   Huang, Kuo Wei ^a  

^a University of Kang Ning   (Taiwan)

^b TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Food safety; Hygiene; Night market; Street food vendors

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052159688     PISSN: 09567135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2011.07.003     Document Type: Article

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