The nitrate content of vegetable and salad crops offered to the consumer as from "organic" or "conventional" production systems

Biological Agriculture and Horticulture

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 215-221

  Stopes, C ^a   Woodward, L ^a   Forde, G ^a   Vogtmann, H ^b  

^a Elm Farm Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

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EID: 0001474048     PISSN: 01448765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01448765.1988.9755146     Document Type: Article

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