Sampling for grain quality

Stewart Postharvest Review

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Spanjer, Martien C ^a  

^a National Reference Laboratory   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cereals; DON; Grain; Mycotoxins; OTA; Sampling; Uncertainty; Variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949157775     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17459656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2212/spr.2007.6:12     Document Type: Review

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