Iran-Made Packaging Machine Increases Shelf Life of Foodstuff
“Our machines are equipped with a vacuum system and gas injection which carry out packaging by using the MAP method. This product can automatically pack food products in plastic containers with high speed and accuracy,” said Mohaddeseh Haji, the company's marketing expert.
She explained that the technology improves the shelf life of the product by 3 to 10 times, while it does not contain harmful preservatives, adding, “Also, while evacuating the air around the product, this device uses gas injection to create a modified atmosphere and increase the shelf life of the product.”
“The machine can perform the processes of measuring, filling, vacuuming, sealing and printing the product’s information automatically,” Haji said.
She added that this method increases the shelf life of the products several times, and also maintains the original quality of the products, lowers the returns, increases the hygiene of the product and has a great impact on the beauty of the product.
Modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) is an indirect technology of food preservation that was developed to retain the freshness of products. The composition of the gas in the package is in package is changed and adapted to keep microbiological proliferation and reactions leading to chemical deterioration to a minimum, as the term indicates. It is worth noting that the gases in the atmosphere packages are not regulated, but rather modified.
Various packaging and storage procedures are dependent on the constituents of the storage atmosphere changing. The goal of controlled atmosphere storage (CAS) is to maintain the appropriate composition of gas in a storage chamber while staying within defined limits. A gas-powered generator is often used in CAS to produce and regulate a modified atmosphere in a cold storage facility where the product is stored.
In modified atmosphere storage, however, the original composition of the gas is modified at the early stages of the packaging in a storage chamber that is airtight, and the atmosphere evolves throughout time as a result of microbial growth and respiratory activity.
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