Irradiation

Food Shelf Life Stability: Chemical, Biochemical, and Microbiological Changes

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 87-128

  Blank, G ^a   Cumming, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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