Economically motivated adulteration of honey: Quality control vulnerabilities in the international Money Market

Food Protection Trends

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 8-14

  Strayer, Sarah Easter ^a,b   Everstine, Karen ^a   Kennedy, Shaun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b US Army Medical Department Center & School   (United States)

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