Oscillatory Sorption Tests for Determining the Water-transport Properties of Chitosan-based Edible Films

Journal of Food Science

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Del Nobile, M A ^a   Buonocore, G G ^b   Conte, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chitosan; Edible films; Oscillatory sorption tests; Packaging; Water barrier properties

Indexed keywords

EID: 1242344852     PISSN: 00221147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2621.2004.tb17866.x     Document Type: Article

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