Air Liquide's offer for the meat and poultry industries includes food gases as well as technologies, equipment and services for the following applications: Modified Atmosphere Packaging (to eliminate or reduce any product deterioration), animal stunning (poultry, pigs, cows) before slaughtering, chilling (preserving the natural quality, flavour and colour of meat and poultry), cryogenic freezing (long-term preservation of meat products while maintaining their quality and preventing water losses), crust freezing (to increase the slicing efficiency), IQF Individual Quick Freezing of small, fragile or sticky products, sauce coating, reduction of the Campylobacter bacteria on chicken body, temperature control (to avoid any temperature rise) during mixing, mincing or blending, cold transportation without breaking the cold chain (during processes in the production plant and during transport).