APPLE SHIPMENTS.
CAUSE OF BROWN HEART.
REPORT ON INVESTIGATIONS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON. Feb. 22, The Food Investigation Board, in a special report on brown heart in apple shipments, States that the cause of the disease is to be sought rather in conditions of shipment than in any inherent defect in fruit variations in different ships, and also in the different holds of the same ship, and which were generally correlated in an obvious way with the amount of ventilation afforded, and with the composition of the atiriosphere in the chambers. Boats without the means of changing air in the holds were more prone to arrive Home with affected cargoes than boats fitted with fans and other means of forced ventilation.
The available evidence points conclusively to the fact that brown heart in Australian shipments appears to be the result of an accumulation of carbon dioxide in the presence of a certain amount of oxygen in the atmosphere of the hold. Examination of shipments on arrival in England has shown very marked correlation between the occurrence of brown heart and carbon dioxide contents in the hold.—Reuter.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 24 February 1925, Page 5
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