The role of organic and fair trade labels when choosing chocolate

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 44, Issue , 2015, Pages 92-100

  Rousseau, Sandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Chocolate; D12; Fair trade; Labeling; Organic food; Q18; Q5; Stated choice experiment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928138466     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2015.04.002     Document Type: Article

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