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Human protein requirement: policy issues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

A. A. Jackson
A. A. Jackson*
Affiliation:
Institute of Human Nutrition, School of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK
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Corresponding author: Professor A. A. Jackson, fax +44 23 80794945, email aaj@soton.ac.uk
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Workshop on ‘Protein and amino acid requirements and recommendations’
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Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 60 , Issue 1 , February 2001 , pp. 7 - 11
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