Opinion of the Scientific Committee on a request from EFSA related to Exposure Assessments

EFSA Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2005, Pages

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Author keywords

Exposure assessment; food consumption; guidance documents; occurrence data; uncertainties

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EID: 85078373403     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18314732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2903/j.efsa.2005.249     Document Type: Article

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