Bisphenol-A in Canned Food Products: Is it Really Required?

Tarun Batra

doi:10.2478/10004-1254-62-2011-2176

Bisphenol-A in Canned Food Products: Is it Really Required?

Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology

Volume 62 (2011): Issue 4 (December 2011)

By: Tarun Batra

Open Access

|Dec 2011

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