| abstract |
REFERS TO AN ENVIRONMENTALLY ACCEPTABLE PROCESS AND A COMPOSITION TO PREVENT QUALITATIVE DETERIORATION AND QUANTITATIVE LOSS OF PLANT AND FOOD MATERIALS DURING STORAGE AND HANDLING STATES, INCLUDING PRE AND POST-HARVEST, DISTRIBUTION, PLANTING; WHERE THE PROCESS CONSISTS OF THE TREATMENT BY IMMERSION OF FOODS AND PLANTS WITH THE COMPOSITION THAT CONTAINS FROM 0.001% TO 50% OF HYDROGEN PEROXIDE AND OPTIONALLY AN EFFECTIVE DOSE OF ONE OR MORE ADDITIONAL COMPONENTS, IN EFFECTED CONCENTRATIONS, IN CONCENTRATIONS OF: i) EFFECTIVE CONCENTRATIONS FROM 1 ppb TO 50,000 ppm OF METALS OR DISPERSED METAL IONS, SUCH AS SILVER, COPPER, ZINC, AMONG OTHERS; ii) HYDROGEN PEROXIDE ACTIVATORS, SYNERGISTS AND PROMOTERS; iii) H2O2 STABILIZERS AND MODIFIERS, SUCH AS CITRIC ACID, TARTARIC ACID, BORIC ACID OR BROMIC ACID; iv) pH REGULATORS, SELECTED FROM MINERAL ACIDS SUCH AS: PHOSPHORIC, NITRIC, HYDROCHLORIC OR SULFURIC ACIDS AND ORGANIC ACIDS SUCH AS PERACETIC ACID; v) SELECTED ORGANIC AND / OR INORGANIC ADDITIVES OF PERACETIC ACID, PHENOL, GLYCERIN, PECTIN, AMONG OTHERS |