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FSTA (Food Science & Technology Abstracts)

Brief Description

FSTA comprehensively covers every aspect of food science, food products, and food packaging for all commodities. FSTA contains information from scientific journals relating to food science and technology published throughout the world, as well as important information from patents, books, conference proceedings, pamphlets and legislation. All abstracts are in English.

Dates of Coverage: 1969 - present
Frequency of Updates:

Weekly

Record Type: Bibliographic citations with abstracts
Number of Journals:  
Number of Records: 800,000+
Subjects Covered: FSTA covers topics relating to every aspect of the food chain including all the major food commodities plus biotechnology, microbiology, food safety, additives, nutrition, packaging and pet foods.
Patent coverage: Sources include European Patent Office (EPO); World patents (Patent Co-operation Treaty (PCT)) from 104 countries, and country patents from the USA, UK, Germany, France, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Finland, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal, Canada and Japan.
Journal List: Not available

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