Quantitation of Vitamins Using Microbiological Assays in Microtiter Formats

Fortified Foods with Vitamins: Analytical Concepts to Assure Better and Safer Products

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 37-64

  Weber, Wolfgang ^a   Mönch, Sabine ^b   Rychlik, Michael ^b   Stengl, Sylvia ^c  

^a Institut Für Produktqualität   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c R Biopharm AG Rhome Ltd Scotland   (Germany)

Author keywords

Microbiological assay; Microtiter; VitaFast; Vitamin activity; Vitamins

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856820212     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527634156.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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