EuroFIR Congress 2006: Food Information Databank Systems - everything you ever wanted to know

Trends in Food Science and Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 398-406

  Williamson, Claire S ^a   Buttriss, Judith L ^a  

^a BRITISH NUTRITION FOUNDATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD PRODUCTS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

DATABANK SYSTEMS; FOOD INFORMATION; NETWORK OF EXCELLENCE (NOE);

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 34347366357     PISSN: 09242244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tifs.2006.10.023     Document Type: Article

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