Fresh-cut Produce Quality: Implications for a Systems Approach

Postharvest Handling

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 247-282

  Nicola, Silvana ^a   Tibaldi, Giorgio ^a   Fontana, Emanuela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374112-7.00010-X     Document Type: Chapter

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