Nutrition labelling of pre-packaged foods in Belgrade, Serbia: Current situation

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1969-1978

  Davidović, Dragana B ^a   Tomić, Dragan V ^a   Paunović, Katarina Ž ^a   Vasiljević, Nadja D ^a   Jorga, Jagoda B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Labelling; Nutrition information; Pre packaged food

Indexed keywords

CATERING SERVICE; FOOD PACKAGING; HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; READING; SERBIA;

FOOD LABELING; FOOD PACKAGING; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; NUTRITIVE VALUE; READING; SERBIA;

EID: 84936995450     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980014002353     Document Type: Article

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