Parts‐per‐trillion determination of styrene in yoghurt by purge‐and‐trap gas chromatography with mass spectrometry detectionFootnote∗

Paper presented as a Poster at the ILSI Europe, International Symposium ‘Food Packaging—Ensuring the Safety and Quality of Foods’ held in Budapest (Hungary) from Sept. 11–13th 1996.

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