Minimally Processed Fruits and Fruit Products and their Microbiological Safety

Handbook of Fruits and Fruit Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 115-128

  Balla, Csaba ^a   Farkas, József ^a  

^a Institute of Data Analytics and Information Systems   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Fruit microbiological safety; Minimal pretreatment processing; Modified atmosphere packaging; Processed fruit products; Processed fruits

Indexed keywords

EID: 43849086596     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470277737.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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