Retraction notice on "Chocolate with high Cocoa content as a weight-loss accelerator"
Abstract
This article accidentally appeared online for some days in the same url where this notice can now be found. A public disclaimer has been published in the publisher's website explaining how it all happened. Indeed that manuscript was finally rejected and never published as such.
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