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Nutritional and other implications of irradiating meat

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

M. H. Stevenson
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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Symposium on ‘The role of meat in the human diet’
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Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 53 , Issue 2 , July 1994 , pp. 317 - 325
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1994

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