Empowering the regulators in the development of national performance measurements in food safety

British Food Journal

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 317-336

  Charlebois, Sylvain ^a   Hielm, Sebastian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b The National Library of Finland   (Finland)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Data handling; Food safety; Regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893432121     PISSN: 0007070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/BFJ-05-2012-0124     Document Type: Article

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