Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Processes – Packaging or treatment of packaged product
Patent
1989-09-29
1991-03-26
Weinstein, Steven
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Processes
Packaging or treatment of packaged product
426410, 426419, 426413, B65B 504, B65B 5302
Patent
active
050027867
ABSTRACT:
A method of killing insect larvae in larvae-infected fruit is disclosed, which comprises shrinkwrapping individual fruit from a geographical area infested with an insect known to infect the fruit for a time sufficient to kill larvae of the insect, wherein no treatment of the fruit to kill the insect or the insect larvae occurs between picking and shrinkwrapping the fruit. Shrinkwrapped fruit prepared by the method is also disclosed.
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Idaho Research Foundation Inc.
Neeley Richard L.
Weinstein Steven
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