Zero tolerance for Listeria monocytogenes in foods - Is it necessary or realistic?

Food Australia

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 169-170

  Gilbert, Richard J ^a  

^a CENTRAL PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

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