Microbial inactivation by pulsed electric fields

Novel Food Processing Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 45-68

  Pagán, Rafael ^a   Condón, Santiago ^a   Raso, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

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