Aflatoxins in dates and dates products

Food Control

Volumn 43, Issue , 2014, Pages 163-166

  Iqbal, Shahzad Zafar ^a,b   Asi, Muhammad Rafique ^c   Jinap, S ^b  

^a GOVERNMENT COLLEGE UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c NUCLEAR INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE AND BIOLOGY NIAB   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Aflatoxins; Date varieties; Dates products; HPLC

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897466826     PISSN: 09567135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2014.03.010     Document Type: Article

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