Health claims and functional foods

Nutrition and Dietetics

Volumn 65, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2008, Pages

  Williams, Peter ^a   Ghosh, Dilip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Food standard; Functional food; Health claim

Indexed keywords

EID: 44949193952     PISSN: 14466368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0080.2008.00268.x     Document Type: Review

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