High throughput quality and safety assessment of packaged green produce using two optical oxygen sensor based systems

Food Control

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 87-93

  Borchert, Nicolas ^a   Hempel, Andreas ^a   Walsh, Helena ^a   Kerry, Joe P ^a   Papkovsky, Dmitri B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Green produce; MAP salads; Quality and safety assessment; Residual oxygen; Shelf life tests; Total viable counts

Indexed keywords

LACTUCA;

EID: 84861219611     PISSN: 09567135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2012.04.044     Document Type: Article

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