The Immediate Influence of a Food Safety Incident on Japanese Consumers' Food Choice Decisions and Willingness to Pay for Safer Food

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1099-1112

  He, Zhongyu ^a   Zhai, Guofang ^a   Suzuki, Takeshi ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LAND AND INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT   (Japan)

Author keywords

food choice; food safety; import food; Japan; WTP

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893943374     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2013.833000     Document Type: Article

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