If, on the other hand, you're blithely performing the weekly supermarket sweep, gleefully snapping up the glossy air-freighted jewels in their controlled-atmosphere packaging, then... go boil your head.
The underlying principle behind storage techniques like controlled atmosphere storage and modified atmosphere packaging involves manipulation of respiration rate of the stored produce.
This review looks at the effects of temperature, relative humidity, storage under controlled atmosphere (CA) or modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) and processing on glucosinolate content in broccoli heads.
An economical method of providing this controlled atmosphere is with rooftop single or multizone package units.
The company does not aggressively market the technology, but a label on the back of its packages contains the phrase "controlled atmosphere stunning".
This project is characterized by a high proportion of variable costs stemming from laboratory fruit analysis, long-term storage requirements in a controlled atmosphere, electronic sorting of fruit to determine quality, and packaging requirements for wholesale and retail trade.
The treatments in the factorial design consisted of two types of packaging (hermetic big bags with the injection of up to 60% CO2 in a controlled atmosphere; similar bags but without the injection of CO2 in a modified atmosphere) and three sampling positions in the bags (high, medium, and low).
Anglia Autoflow, the company that is building the knock-out systems for the two processors, calls the process "controlled atmosphere stunning," but Mr. Pitman said his company was considering the phrase "sedation stunning" for use on its packages.
"It's a controlled atmosphere," Dickey said.
The club's parties, he said, offered "a controlled atmosphere.
One possibility is the use of modified atmosphere packaging (MAP).
