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Zinc in Human Nutrition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 December 2007

Susan J. Fairweather-Tait
Susan J. Fairweather-Tait
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AFRC Institute of Food Research, Norwich Laboratory, Colney Lane, NorwichNR4 7UA
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Nutrition Research Reviews , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , January 1988 , pp. 23 - 37
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