Water activity and plasticization

Food Shelf Life Stability: Chemical, Biochemical, and Microbiological Changes

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 3-36

  Roos, Yrjö H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

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WATER ACTIVITY;

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