Quality Management: An Industrial Approach to Produce Handling

Postharvest Handling

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 153-204

  Opara, Umezuruike Linus ^a  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374112-7.00008-1     Document Type: Chapter

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