Modeling shelf life using microbial indicators

Shelf Life Assessment of Food

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 127-168

  Kreyenschmidt, Judith ^a   Ibald, Rolf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b European University of Applied Sciences Rhein Erft   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; FOOD PRODUCTS;

BACTERIAL GROWTH; FOOD INDUSTRIES; HIGH SAFETY; MICROBIAL INDICATORS; NUTRITIONAL COMPOSITIONS; PERISHABLE PRODUCT; SHELF LIFE;

FOOD SAFETY;

EID: 84899220826     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/b11871     Document Type: Chapter

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