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. 1999 Nov 1;90(6):382–384. doi: 10.1007/BF03404139

Charitable Food Assistance: What are Food Bank Users Receiving?

Adrienne C Teron 1, Valerie S Tarasuk 1,
PMCID: PMC6980020  PMID: 10680260

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Footnotes

Adrienne Teron was supported in part by a Life Sciences Undergraduate Student Research Fellowship. The project was funded by Daily Bread Food Bank with a donation from Kraft Canada.

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