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Fruit Pests Abhor a Vacuum
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August 22, 2008 02:47 PM
A physical chemist has developed a new technique for ridding harvested produce of insect pests and microorganisms without using pesticides such as methyl bromide
Suffocating post-harvest pests in an artificial vacuum could replace many pesticides.
The technique, called Metabolic Stress Disinfection and Disinfestation, suffocates pests by exposing them to cycles of vacuum and pressurized carbon dioxide. Treatment chambers could be easy to develop on a large enough scale for farmers to use.
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