A critical look at whether ‘freshness’ can be determined

Journal of Aquatic Food Product Technology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 5-25

  Bremner, H Allan ^a   Sakaguchi, Morihiko ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Definition; Freshness; Tests

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009868828     PISSN: 10498850     EISSN: 15470636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J030v09n03_02     Document Type: Article

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