Spray devices that have been preconditioned with an iodine-containing conditioning agent prior to being deployed with aqueous iodine. In some embodiments, each spray device contains one or more materials that will be wetted by the aqueous iodine during use and that have been preconditioned to contain iodine so as to inhibit iodine absorption from the aqueous iodine added to the spray device after the preconditioning. Methods for preconditioning spray devices are also disclosed. In one example, surfaces of spray-device components that will be wetted by aqueous iodine during deployment are exposed to an iodine-containing conditioning agent and, while exposed to the iodine-containing conditioning agent, are thermodynamically treated. Methods of using spray devices for dispensing aqueous iodine for any one or more of a variety of purposes are also disclosed.

Spray devices that have been preconditioned with an iodine-containing conditioning agent prior to being deployed with aqueous iodine. In some embodiments, each spray device contains one or more materials that will be wetted by the aqueous iodine during use and that have been preconditioned to contain iodine so as to inhibit iodine absorption from the aqueous iodine added to the spray device after the preconditioning. Methods for preconditioning spray devices are also disclosed. In one example, surfaces of spray-device components that will be wetted by aqueous iodine during deployment are exposed to an iodine-containing conditioning agent and, while exposed to the iodine-containing conditioning agent, are thermodynamically treated. Methods of using spray devices for dispensing aqueous iodine for any one or more of a variety of purposes are also disclosed.

This disclosure provides methods and articles of manufacture (e.g., flexible bags) that extend the shelf life of packaged food products, such as wine, that are susceptible to oxidation. Oxygen transport into the product (e.g., wine) through the flexible-bag walls reduces the shelf life of the product. Similarly, oxygen in air trapped in headspace of a flexible bag packaged with the food product (e.g., wine) eventually dissolves or permeates into the product, and can reduce shelf life and the quality of the product. This disclosure relates flexible bags that provide inert gas cavities around the food product (e.g., wine) and in the headspace above the food product, and the process of making such flexible bags, such that the total oxygen content inside an unfilled (with product) flexible bag is less than 10%.

A machine (1) for packaging an object, notably a sterilization basket (B), with at least one sterilization packaging material, notably a sterilization sheet (F), the machine comprising: a plate (10) configured to receive the sterilization packaging material (F) and the object to be packaged (B) placed on top, a gripping tool (110) configured to grasp hold of a corner (F1; F2; F3; F4) of the sterilization packaging material (F), the gripping tool (110) and the plate (10) being able to move relative to one another so as to allow the gripping tool (110) to bring the corner over the top of the object (B) and thus form at least one fold covering the object (B).

A machine (1) for packaging an object, notably a sterilization basket (B), with at least one sterilization packaging material, notably a sterilization sheet (F), the machine comprising: a plate (10) configured to receive the sterilization packaging material (F) and the object to be packaged (B) placed on top, a gripping tool (110) configured to grasp hold of a corner (F1; F2; F3; F4) of the sterilization packaging material (F), the gripping tool (110) and the plate (10) being able to move relative to one another so as to allow the gripping tool (110) to bring the corner over the top of the object (B) and thus form at least one fold covering the object (B).

An apparatus to fill and package capsules in bottles is provided with a dosing line having a dosing unit to feed at least one pharmaceutical or nutraceutical product into the capsules, a pocket conveyor to move the capsules through the dosing unit, and an output station to release the capsules containing the pharmaceutical or nutraceutical product from the pocket conveyor, and a packaging line having a conveyor device to move, in succession, the bottles through a packaging station connected to the output station so as to receive each capsule released by the pocket conveyor and feed it into a respective bottle.

The present disclosure discloses a rice conditioning process and a production method of instant rice, and belongs to the technical field of food processing. According to the present disclosure, rice conditioning pretreatment is realized on the basis of an instantaneous high-temperature fluidization technology, and a conditioning liquid containing compounded soft rice flour, edible oil and rice soup is prepared through a rice soup backfilling technology. A technology of rapid cooling for film forming is adopted to increase a water-retaining film on the surface of rice, so as to enhance the water-retaining property, viscoelasticity and luster of the rice. The method mainly includes the steps of rice washing and draining, conditioning, cooking, aseptic packaging and rapid cooling for film forming. According to the present disclosure, industrialized continuous production can be realized, and the obtained instant rice is sticky but not adhesive after being stored for 60 days, and has a good taste.

Activated treated water that can be manufactured by an extremely simple method and with which activation treatment can be performed on water that has not undergone activation treatment without direct contact. Activated treated water that is clustered water that has undergone activation treatment and thereby formed small molecule groups, wherein the ratio FID/FID0 of the free induction decay (FID) (units being seconds) of a peak originating in the hydrogen atoms in the water molecules in the hydrogen nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum for the activated treated water and the free induction decay FID0 (units being seconds) of a peak originating in the hydrogen atoms in the water molecules in the hydrogen nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum for water that has not undergone activation treatment is 0.80 or less.

Activated treated water that can be manufactured by an extremely simple method and with which activation treatment can be performed on water that has not undergone activation treatment without direct contact. Activated treated water that is clustered water that has undergone activation treatment and thereby formed small molecule groups, wherein the ratio FID/FID0 of the free induction decay (FID) (units being seconds) of a peak originating in the hydrogen atoms in the water molecules in the hydrogen nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum for the activated treated water and the free induction decay FID0 (units being seconds) of a peak originating in the hydrogen atoms in the water molecules in the hydrogen nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum for water that has not undergone activation treatment is 0.80 or less.

This disclosure relates to equipment utilized to manufacture chemical agents, particularly biopharmaceuticals, using Disposable Containers (DCs).