The detection of melamine in milk products

Food Engineering and Ingredients

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 22-25

  Lampinen, Jorma ^a  

^a Thermo Fisher Scientific Oy   (Finland)

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EID: 70449396914     PISSN: 14712806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
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