Modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) is an optimal blend of pure oxygen, carbon dioxide (CO2), and nitrogen within the food package, enabling fresh and minimally processed packaged food products to maintain visual, textural, and nutritional appeal to the customer.
A proper controlled MAP gas blend is developed to meet the specific needs for each packaged food product, while the choice of gas analyser instrumentation is essential to ensuring the highest quality and safety standards of this applications. Here, MOCON Europe, Dansensor, provides five considerations for selecting MAP instruments:
1. Look for a local presence. In addition to being able to communicate in a native language, having local service availability and calibration for your MAP testing instruments is important to avoid production disruptions.
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