Food System Sustainability and the Consumer

Food Industry Wastes

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 281-293

  Schröder, Monika ^a  

^a QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84883964150     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-391921-2.00016-0     Document Type: Chapter

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