"Big Food," the Consumer Food Environment, Health, and the Policy Response in South Africa

Overview

Journal PLoS Med

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2012 Jul 18

PMID 22802733

Citations 60

Authors

Ehimario U Igumbor

David Sanders

Thandi R Puoane

Lungiswa Tsolekile

Cassandra Schwarz

Christopher Purdy

Rina Swart

Solange Durao

Corinna Hawkes

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