Assessing the socio-economic dimension of food quality and safety regulations: Research challenges and recent advances

Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops and Foods

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 195-200

  Mazzocchi, Mario ^a   Ragona, Maddalena ^a   Giorgi, Liana ^b   Schiefer, Gerhard ^c   Fritz, Melanie ^c   Novelli, Emanuele ^c   Krapp, Henrik ^c   Spichtinger, Daniel ^d   Poms, Roland ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b ICCR   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d RTD Services   (Austria)

^e International Association for Cereal Science and Technology   (Austria)

Author keywords

Better regulation; Food safety; Impact assessment; MoniQA; Socio economic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867690226     PISSN: 17578361     EISSN: 1757837X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1757-837X.2009.00033.x     Document Type: Article

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