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Assessing food safety training needs of environmental health specialists in the U.S.: focus group summary

Brian Nummer1, Angela Fraser, John Marcy

  • 1Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Sciences Department, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA. Brian.nummer@usu.edu

Journal of Environmental Health
|April 28, 2010
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