On 03/03/2019 08:39, Tim Streater wrote:
In article , Brian Gaff
wrote:

I personally think the pre packed food with plastic over it is
probably extremely wasteful also they fill the package with gas of
some kind to help preserve the contents.

Nitrogen, I imagine. Harmless as 80% of what you breathe is nitrogen.

Meat is sometimes packed in pure oxygen to keep it pink. They
demonstrated this in "Bang Goes the Theory" I think with a glowing spill.

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Max Demian