title: Health food stores investigation.
abstract: In accordance with the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs' mandate to educate consumers and to prevent fraud and deception in the marketplace, the agency conducted a three-month investigation of city health food stores. Twenty-three health food businesses located throughout the five boroughs were visited from September through November 1982 in order to ascertain what those stores sold and how their merchandise compared, in quality and price, with items sold by other businesses.
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003611:Dairy Products; D003625:Data Collection; D002523:Edible Grain; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005502:Food / Q000191:economics*; D005638:Fruit; D008460:Meat; D009519:New York City; D014675:Vegetables; D014815:Vitamins
chemical_list: D014815:Vitamins