Presence of nitrates in baby foods marketed in Portugal

Cogent Food and Agriculture

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Rebelo, João Sebastião ^a   Almeida, Mário Dias ^a   Vales, Lucília ^b   Almeida, Cristina M M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR MEDICINES IMED ULISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

baby foods; nitrates; occurrence; spectrophotometric method; validation method

Indexed keywords

EID: 85052786283     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23311932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/23311932.2015.1010414     Document Type: Article

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