Nutritional Supplements

Chemical Analysis of Food: Techniques and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 539-573

  Malet Martino, Myriam ^a   Martino, Robert ^a   Bonnet, Pierre Antoine ^b  

^a Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III   (France)

^b AFSSAPS   (France)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-384862-8.00017-0     Document Type: Chapter

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