In the history of mankind has always been a major problem on how to store food so that, independent of the seasonality of agricultural production, there is food in quantity and quality available at all times for people. Since ancient times, humans have developed different systems of food storage.
Accesorie for small phosphine fumigations using the HDS CF or HDS 30. Specially designed for fumigation as smallest as 1 cubic meter or 35 cubic feets
Proper precautions needs to be taken, in order to avoid that stored food is attacked by different agents, both physical and biological, affecting its quality and produce significant losses. Insects are a major cause of lost food, as these large artificial reservoirs have ideal conditions for their development. Countries have endeavored to keep these pests under control, so as to properly preserve the stored product and further prevent the spread of these between different geographic locations as a result of trade between countries.
There are not many tools to control pests. Among the desirable conditions of a tool for the control of pests that can be named are:
- It leaves no residue on treated products
- It does not react with treated product
- It does not affect the quality of treated product
- It presents a good penetration in treated products
- Environmentally friendly (not producing global warming or damaging the ozone layer, and that once released into the atmosphere degrade rapidly)
- It can be applied safely
As knowledge advances are increasing the constraints to the implementation of these pest control tools. Mankind has wrong many times, using products that generate harm to people, ecosystems and facilities.
At present, there are very few tools that meet the desired conditions for a measure of pest control, which makes the spectrum of possibilities for the protection of food and large deposits are drastically reduced to only a few fumigant gases. It is for this, that mankind, with all its capacity for development and research carried out over many years, has not found a better product than the Phosphine gas for this purpose, which is being used for over 75 years ago all around the world.