Establishment of a national food safety authority for cyprus: A comparative proposal based on the European paradigm

Food Control

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 727-736

  Hadjigeorgiou, Andreas ^a,b   Soteriades, Elpidoforos S ^c,d   Gikas, Achilleas ^a   Philalithis, Anastasios ^a   Psaroulaki, Anna ^a   Tselentis, Yiannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b NICOSIA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Cyprus)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d Cyprus Institute of Biomedical Sciences CIBS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Cyprus; Food control; Food legislation; Food safety systems; Independent authority; Reorganization; Single authority

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868243445     PISSN: 09567135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2012.07.032     Document Type: Article

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