A new approach to predict the water-transport properties of multilayer films intended for food-packaging applications

Journal of Food Science

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Del Nobile, M A ^a   Buonocore, G G ^b   Dainelli, D ^c   Nicolais, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c Cryovac Sealed Air   (Italy)

Author keywords

Food packaging; Modeling; Multilayer films; Water permeability

Indexed keywords

EID: 1942473775     PISSN: 00221147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2621.2004.tb13368.x     Document Type: Article

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