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Quantitative analysis of powdered caffeine products purchased from the Internet using liquid chromatography–quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry

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Pages 339-343 | Received 17 Oct 2015, Accepted 31 Dec 2015, Published online: 03 Feb 2016

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