Monitoring microbiological quality of bottled water as suggested by HACCP methodology

Food Control

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 957-961

  Kokkinakis, Emmanuel N ^a   Fragkiadakis, Georgios A ^a   Kokkinaki, Aikaterini N ^a  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bottled water; HACCP; Heterotrophic plate count; Microbial monitoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249095426     PISSN: 09567135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2007.10.001     Document Type: Article

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