Assessing the safety and quality of reused packaging materials

Environmentally-Friendly Food Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 241-265

  Simoneau, C ^a   Raffael, B ^a   Franz, R ^b  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging   (Germany)

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EID: 19944371416     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1533/9781855737174.2.241     Document Type: Chapter

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