Contaminated weaning food: a major risk factor for diarrhoea and associated malnutrition.

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Published in Bull World Health Organ on January 01, 1993

Authors

Y Motarjemi1, F Käferstein, G Moy, F Quevedo

Author Affiliations

1: Food Safety Unit, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

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