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Food preservation by refrigeration, a general introduction.

Author(s) : LORENTZEN G.

Type of article: Article, IJR article

Summary

Rapid world wide development of the cold chain on a large scale is necessary to assure proper food supply to fast growing populations. There is sufficient technical information available to do this properly; the problems are mainly economic and political. But even so there is a great need to develop the scientific base further. Although there exists a vast amount of data concerning proper storage conditions for different kinds of food, there is still much to learn. This is particularly true for living produce such as fruit and vegetables, where the number of varieties and differences caused by growing conditions are tremendous. The composition of the atmosphere is sometimes as important as temperature and many additional treatments may be used in order to improve the keeping quality. Frozen foods are much more stable and in many ways simpler to handle, but present some difficult quality control problems. While chilling, freezing and cold storage are relatively simple procedures and can be done very economically on a large scale, the problems are greater in transport and distribution. Further improvements are required to combine satisfactory quality protection and acceptable costs in scattered small scale operation. The retail sales equipment in particular needs careful attention.

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  • Original title: Food preservation by refrigeration, a general introduction.
  • Record ID : 30000706
  • Languages: English
  • Subject: General information
  • Source: International Journal of Refrigeration - Revue Internationale du Froid - vol. 1 - n. 1
  • Publication date: 1978

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