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Developing Criteria for the Selection of Packaging Materials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Phyllis M. Smith
Phyllis M. Smith*
Affiliation:
Lewiston, Idaho
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 5 , Issue 9 , September 1984 , pp. 445 - 446
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1984

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