Sustainability and quality in the food supply chain. A case study of shipment of edible oils

British Food Journal

Volumn 116, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2069-2090

  Manzini, Riccardo ^a   Accorsi, Riccardo ^a   Ayyad, Ziad ^a   Bendini, Alessandra ^a   Bortolini, Marco ^a   Gamberi, Mauro ^b   Valli, Enrico ^c   Toschi, Tullia Gallina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Edible oil; Food; Freight container; International shipment; Life cycle assessment (LCA); Supply chain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926288145     PISSN: 0007070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/BFJ-11-2013-0338     Document Type: Article

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