Toxicological risk of melamine and cyanuric acid in food and feed

Interdisciplinary Toxicology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 55-59

  Suchý, Pavel ^a   Straková, Eva ^a   Herzig, Ivan ^a   Staňa, Jaroslav ^b   Kalusová, Renata ^b   Pospíchalová, Markéta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^b Central Institute for Supervising and Testing Agriculture   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

adulteration of protein feeds; nitrogen compounds; toxicological consequences

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649303109     PISSN: 13376853     EISSN: 13379569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10102-009-0010-6     Document Type: Article

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