Decontamination of dry food ingredients with "soft-electrons" (low-energy electrons)

Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 293-299

  Hayashi, Toru ^a  

^a NATIONAL FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dehydrated vegetables; Food; Grains; Pulses; Spices

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039398132     PISSN: 00213551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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