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M Murkovic1, A Hillebrand, J Winkler

  • 1Graz University of Technology, Department of Bio- and Food Chemistry, Austria.

Zeitschrift Fur Lebensmittel-Untersuchung Und -Forschung
|September 1, 1996
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