Milk adulteration with melamine in China: Crisis and response

Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops and Foods

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 111-116

  Yang, Ruijia ^a   Huang, Wei ^a   Zhang, Lishi ^a   Thomas, Miles ^b   Pei, Xiaofang ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Food safety; Melamine; Milk adulteration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862249281     PISSN: 17578361     EISSN: 1757837X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1757-837X.2009.00018.x     Document Type: Article

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