Russian industry science: modern refrigeration technology and the solution to the problem of healthy eating

The Concept of the State policy in the field of healthy nutrition of Russian population for the period up to the year 2005 and approved by the decree of the Government of the Russian Federation in the year 1У9Я had a great impact on the development of sciences associated with agriindustrial complex (АIС) in accordance with the main directions of the Concept was specified a structure of the subprogram "Perspective processes in processing industries of АIС which is a part of the special federal scientific and technical program "Research and development on priority directions of development of science and technique of civil application”.

Under this sub-program fundamentally new technological systems, ensuring the intensification of processes of chilling and freezing, increasing storage time of perishable foods, reduction of their losses and decreasing the velocity of oxidation processes have been developed.

A cryogenic method of products freezing by liquid and gaseous nitrogen using a non-mechanical flow-through system of cold supply was developed.

The importance of problems of agricultural materials and food products storage is confirmed by the fact that this direction has been included into the list of priority directions of development of science and technology in AIC for the period 2001-2005 years.

At the present time the preparation of the program on solving the storage problems in the processing industries of AIC is being implemented within the federal special scientific and technical program “Research and developments on priority directions of science and technology” for the period 2002-2006, as approved by the Government of the Russian Federation as a result of competition, carried out by the Russian Ministry of Science.