Naturally Occurring Nitrates and Nitrites in Foods

Bioactive Compounds in Foods

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 225-253

  Reinik, Mari ^a   Tamme, Terje ^b   Roasto, Mati ^b  

^a Estonian Health Protection Inspectorate   (Estonia)

^b ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Incidence and levels of occurrence; Man made components; Methods of analysis; Milk and dairy products; Naturally occurring nitrates and nitrites in foods; Regulations; Sampling and storage; Spectrophotometric methods; Toxicity of nitrate and nitrite

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889351408     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444302288.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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