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Functional foods: a simple scheme for establishing the scientific validity for all claims

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2007

Margaret Ashwell OBE
Margaret Ashwell OBE
Affiliation:
Ashwell Associates, Ashwell Street, Ashwell, Hertfordshire, SG7 5PZ, UK
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Public Health Nutrition , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , June 2001 , pp. 859 - 862
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