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Food biotechnology: food industry, nutrition and public health

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

Milly Ryan-Harshman
Milly Ryan-Harshman
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FEAST Enterprises, Food and Technology Consulting, 947 Oshawa Boulevard North, Oshawa, Ontario LIG 5V7, Canada
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Symposium on ‘Food industry, nutrition and public health’
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Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 56 , Issue 3 , November 1997 , pp. 845 - 854
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1997

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