Consumer interest in receiving information through social media about the risks of pesticide residues

Food Control

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 386-392

  Rutsaert, Pieter ^a   Pieniak, Zuzanna ^a   Regan, Áine ^b   McConnon, Áine ^b   Verbeke, Wim ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Incidental information acquisition; Information sufficiency; Internet; Pesticide residues; Purposeful information seeking; Social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878774621     PISSN: 09567135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2013.04.030     Document Type: Article

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