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How did an accidentally frozen shipment of Australian meat help expand refrigerated food transport?
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In 1880, a shipment of meat transported from Australia to Britain under refrigeration accidentally froze. The results of this accidental freezing were so successful that the process was immediately adopted for long-distance shipments and other forms of storage, marking a significant milestone in the commercial application of freezing as a method of food preservation.1