Weak-acid preservatives: Mechanisms of adaptation and resistance by yeasts

Food Australia

Volumn 51, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 26-29

  Stratford, M ^a   Lambert, R J W ^a  

^a UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

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