Accuracy of nutrition labels of pre-packaged foods in Malaysia

British Food Journal

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 230-241

  Kok, Sing Chuan ^a   Mohamed Radzi, Che Wan Jasimah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Compliance; Malaysia; Nutrition label; Tolerance limits

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009761199     PISSN: 0007070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/BFJ-07-2016-0306     Document Type: Article

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