High-intensity Pulsed Light Technology

Emerging Technologies for Food Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 239-258

  Cacace, Domenico ^a   Palmieri, Luigi ^a  

^a Stazione Sperimentale per l'Industria delle Conserve Alimentari   (Italy)

Author keywords

Flash lamps; Fluence; Food purification; Nonthermal technology; Photochemical microbial inactivation; Pulsed light; Surface treatments; UV light

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962034887     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-411479-1.00013-9     Document Type: Chapter

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