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(43) Date of publication: 07.01.1999 Bulletin 1999/01 (21) Application number: 96905553.0 (22) Date of filing: 20.02.1996

(51) International Patent Classification (IPC):  A22C 13/ 00( . ) B65D 81/ 20( . ) A23L 3/ 3418( . ) B65D 85/ 50( . ) (86) International application number: PCT/US1996/002254 (87) International publication number: WO 1997/030911 (28.08.1997 Gazette 1997/37)

(84) Designated Contracting States: DE ES FR GB IT PT (71) Applicants: Ben-Tzur, Israel 25147 Kfar Vradim (IL) Stepac L.A., The Sterilizing Packing Company of L.A., Ltd. Tefen, 24959 Western Galilee (IL) STATE OF ISRAEL-MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE Bet Dagan 20250 (IL)	(72) Inventors: MARX NIR, Moira D.N. Misgav (IL) NEHORAY, Nery Kibbutz Gingar (IL) AHARONI, Nehemia 76804 Mazkeret Batya (IL) (74) Representative: Bucks, Teresa Anne, et al  BOULT WADE TENNANT, 27 Furnival Street London EC4A 1PQ London EC4A 1PQ (GB)