Improving the resilience of the UK's food supply chain with cool plasma

该项目旨在通过杀死新鲜农产品上存在的微生物来提高英国食品供应链(FSC)的弹性和效率，如果不加以管理，这些微生物将导致变质。这增加了农产品的保质期，使这些物品能够在配送中心保存更长时间--提高FSC对需求突然高峰期的适应能力。管理腐烂的生物体可以使用化学品，但这是一种不受欢迎的方法，对环境有负面影响。这个项目使用“冷”等离子体来安全地管理腐烂的生物体，而不会留下化学残留物。Creo Medical已经开发了底层的冷等离子体技术，该项目建议将其重新用于食品应用。

This project seeks to improve the resilience and efficiency of the UK's Food Supply Chain (FSC) by killing microbes present on fresh produce that if left unmanaged would lead to spoilage. This increases the shelf life of produce, enabling these items to be held at distribution centres for longer - improving resilience of the FSC to sudden peaks of demand. Managing spoiling organisms can be achieved using chemicals, but this is an unpopular approach with negative implications for the environment.This project uses 'cool' plasma to safely manage spoilage organisms without leaving a chemical residue. Creo Medical has already developed the underlying cool plasma technology, which this project proposes to re-purpose for food applications.