Show BRITAIN MAKES scientific STUDY OF STORED FOOD A scientific study of the transport I 1 and storage of fish elsh meat fruit and vegetables has recently been completed by the british department of scientific and industrial research in the study designed to help british shippers and improve great britaina Brit ains flou supply home krown grown foods received e consideration first and then british empire and foreign produce research demonstrated that fish stored in crushed lee ice aboard trailers trawlers trav lers may be kept in good condition from 10 to 12 days where formerly the storage period was five or seven days it has been shown that herring if frozen rapidly in brine and stored at low temperatures will preserve their quality tor for as long as four months operating cooperating co with australian and new zealand packers the investigators found that beet beef could be preserved in a chilled state for sixty to seventy baysin days in an atmosphere con Infill ng 10 to 20 per cent of carbon dioxide it if ships refrigerators can be nude made sufficiently gaslight this fact should enable australia Australla and new zealand to ship beef to EIn england fingland gland in chill 1 ancon and other pork prod ij uca it was also shown could be J stored successfully in atmospheres J highly charged wath lah carbon dioxide low temperatures alone will not pro pre serve bacon during a trip from australla australia or new zealand the storage of fruits la in gas gag and at low temperatures has hag not yet been thoroughly explored explore di but the study records that the principle of gas gag storage Is now valid beyond dispute |