hydroxide, has been widely used in controlled atmosphere storage
for perishable products (Thompson, 1998), and the absorption
kinetics of O2 and CO2 scavengers was studied by Charles et al.
(2006).
The objectives of this work were to determine the effect of the
MAP design parameters (amount of product, number of perforations
and weight of CO2 scavenger) on the chemical and physical
quality of sliced mushrooms. The optimum MAP conditions were
based on an optimum headspace gas composition and aiming to
minimise quality changes in order to determine the amount of
mushrooms to be packed, the number of perforations and the
weight of CO2 scavenger for maintaining quality and extending
the product shelf-life.