Water activity : influences on food quality : a treatise on the i nfluence of bound and free water on the quality and stability of foods and other natural products / edited by Louis B. Rockland, George F. Stewart. - New York ; London : Academic Press, 1981. - xviii,921 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Some chapters based on papers presented at the 2nd International Sym posium on Properties of Water in Relation to Food Quality and Stability , Osaka, 1978.

Includes bibliographical references and index.


Food--Water activity.
Food--Preservation.
Food industry and trade.

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