Food safety knowledge is lower among Spanishspeaking than among Englishspeaking restaurant food handlers in Chicago

Food Protection Trends

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 16-25

  Panchal, Palak K ^a   Liu, Li ^a   Dworkin, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

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