Studies on contamination of post consumer plastics from controlled resources for recycling into food packaging applications

Deutsche Lebensmittel-Rundschau

Volumn 93, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 328-331

  Huber, M ^a   Franz, R ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR PROCESS ENGINEERING AND PACKAGING IVV   (Germany)

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