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Indicator organisms in frozen foods in relation to spoilage

  • Netherlands Society for Microbiology Symposium on Food Microbiology held at the Hague on 15–19 September 1981 Under the Auspices of the Federation of European Microbiological Societies
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Schmidt-Lorenz, W. Indicator organisms in frozen foods in relation to spoilage. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 48, 625–633 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00399550

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