Consumers' attitudes and behaviour towards safe food in China: A review

Food Control

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 93-104

  Liu, Rongduo ^a,b   Pieniak, Zuzanna ^a   Verbeke, Wim ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b East China Normal University   (China)

Author keywords

China; Consumer; Review; Safe food

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875264583     PISSN: 09567135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2013.01.051     Document Type: Review

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