Private food standard certification: Analysis of the BRC standard in Italian agri-food

British Food Journal

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 142-164

  Spadoni, Roberta ^a   Lombardi, Pamela ^a   Canavari, Maurizio ^a   Hingley, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BRC food impacts; Certification; Cluster analysis; Factor analysis; Private food standards

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890360173     PISSN: 0007070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/BFJ-08-2012-0201     Document Type: Article

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