Ostrich meat: A review

Food Australia

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 504-511

  Sales, James ^a   Oliver Lyons, Brett ^b  

^a Simba Enterprises Ltd ^*  (South Africa)

^b Simba Enterprises Ltd   (Canada)

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