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Assessment of Zinc Status

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

R. P. H. Thompson
R. P. H. Thompson
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St Thomas' Hospital, LondonSE1 7EH
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Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 50 , Issue 1 , March 1991 , pp. 19 - 28
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