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A new cooling cube that never melts could revolutionize how food is kept cooled and shipped.
The innovation, called jelly ice cubes, stays cold for up to 13 hours and can be reused again - it just needs to be rinsed and placed back into a freezer.
Not only are the cooling cubes reusable, but they eliminate cross-contamination that occurs with meltwater and mold found in plastic ice packs.
The jelly ice cubes came about after Luxin Wang, an associate professor at University of California, Davis and part of the research, saw the amount of ice used at fish-processing plants and the cross-contamination that meltwater could spread among products or down the drain.
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A new cooling cube that never melts could revolutionize how food is kept cooled and shipped
Gang Sun, a professor at the University of California, Davis and lead researcher, said in a statement: 'When ice melts,