ABSTRACT
Many people believe that aseptic processing and packaging was invented in the early 1980s when Tetra Pak introduced the …rst bricktype paperboard packaging into the United States. In reality, the …rst patent (no. 2,029,303) for aseptic packaging was granted to C. Olin Ball on February 4, 1936, for aseptic …lling into metal cans. There was no signi…cant activity in the commercialization of aseptic processing and packaging since the patent was issued until the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the Dole aseptic canner was invented and a number of processors started aseptically packaging shelf-stable puddings. This was followed by Tetra Pak form-…ll-seal paperboard and aseptic bag-in-box systems.
