Improving Food Safety within China’s Dairy Chain: Key Issues of Compliance with QA Standards

International Journal on Food System Dynamics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 117-129

  Geng, Wei ^a   Trienekens, Jacques H ^a   Wubben, Emiel F M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

dairy chain; food safety and quality; quality assurance

Indexed keywords

EID: 85012925861     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18696945     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18461/ijfsd.v4i2.423     Document Type: Article

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