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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2009
Filed:
May. 24, 2007
Daniel W. Mayer, Wyoming, MN (US);
Stephen D. Tuomela, Ramsey, MN (US);
Daniel W. Mayer, Wyoming, MN (US);
Stephen D. Tuomela, Ramsey, MN (US);
Mocon, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
A method of measuring the transmission rate of a permeant through a container and determining shelf life of product within the container based upon loss of the permeant through the container. The method includes the steps of (i) placing a sealed container containing a perishable product and a permeant within a sealed retention chamber, (ii) periodically measuring concentration of the permeant within the headspace of the retention chamber until a substantially steady state increase in permeant concentration within the headspace is sensed, and (iii) calculating a shelf life for the sealed container by dividing an amount of permeant loss, previously established as correlating to product expiration, by the sensed steady state increase in permeant concentration.