Front-of-package nutritional labels and consumer beverage perceptions

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 599-614

  Kim, Hyeyoung ^a   House, Lisa A ^a   Rampersaud, Gail ^b   Gao, Zhifeng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Beverage; Front of Package; Nutrition label

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871275388     PISSN: 20405790     EISSN: 20405804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aepp/pps037     Document Type: Article

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