Assessing the impact of unannounced audits on the effectiveness and reliability of organic certification

Organic Agriculture

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 95-109

  Padilla Bravo, Carlos ^a   Villanueva Ramírez, Indira ^a   Neuendorff, Jochen ^b   Spiller, Achim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b GfRS Ges Für Ressourcenschutz mbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Effectiveness; Organic certification; Reliability; Unannounced audits

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888112652     PISSN: 18794238     EISSN: 18794246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13165-013-0048-9     Document Type: Article

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