Including growers in the "food safety" conversation: Enhancing the design and implementation of food safety programming based on farm and marketing needs of fresh fruit and vegetable producers

Agriculture and Human Values

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 303-319

  Parker, Jason S ^a   Wilson, Robyn S ^a   LeJeune, Jeffrey T ^b   Doohan, Douglas ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Farm scale; Food safety; Fresh and fresh cut produce; Policy; Risk; Standards

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865418402     PISSN: 0889048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10460-012-9360-3     Document Type: Article

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