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Nutritional and other implications of irradiating meat

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

M. H. Stevenson*
Affiliation:
Food and Agricultural Chemistry Research Division, Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland and The Queen's University of Belfast, Newforge Lane, Belfast BT9 5PX
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Type
Symposium on ‘The role of meat in the human diet’
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1994

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