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Consumers' views on nutrition and public health

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

Kees De Winter  and
Gabriela Rodriguez
Kees De Winter
Affiliation:
Bureau Européen des Unions de Consummateurs, Avenue de Tervueren, 36 bte 4, B-1040, Brussels, Belgium
Gabriela Rodriguez
Affiliation:
Bureau Européen des Unions de Consummateurs, Avenue de Tervueren, 36 bte 4, B-1040, Brussels, Belgium
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Symposium on ‘Food industry, nutrition and public health’
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Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 56 , Issue 3 , November 1997 , pp. 879 - 888
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1997

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