The use of chitin and chitosan for food packaging applications

Environmentally Compatible Food Packaging

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 137-158

  Arvanitoyannis, I S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

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EID: 84902569557     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1533/9781845694784.1.137     Document Type: Chapter

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