Food Irradiation Techniques

Irradiation of Food Commodities

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 23-42

  Riganakos, Kyriakos A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

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EID: 84882516064     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374718-1.10002-1     Document Type: Chapter

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