date:Nov 07, 2012
at a recent workshop on the impact of novel technologies on the shelf-life in London.
At the event, organised by the Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN), Biosciences KTN and Leatherhead Food Research, Ian Muirhead, chief executive of Anacail, a spin-out company from Glasgow University, explained how activated oxygen ozone in food packaging could be used to extend shelf-life by a further day or even two.
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Muirhead said the technique, which makes use of a plasma hea