Predictive microbiology: Where are we, and Where are we going?

Food Technology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 95-99

  Schaffner, Donald W ^a,b   Labuza, Theodore P ^a,c  

^a IFT ^*  (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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EID: 0001952177     PISSN: 00156639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
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