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Research Article

How good are clinical chemistry laboratories at analysing ethylene glycol?

A. W. Jones Department of Forensic Chemistry University Hospital Linköping, Sweden
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L. Hård EQUALIS AB Uppsala Sweden
Pages 629-634 | Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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