Apparatus and method for a long-term storage of food products

A package for permitting the prolonged preservation of products which must be stored shielded from aerial oxygen, characterized in that it consists of: - a product containing bottle 1 whose wall is of transparent thermoplastics permeable to oxygen, - an outer packing 2 which encases the bottle and whose wall is of low permeability to oxygen, and - an oxygen trap 3 arranged between the outer packing and the bottle. The outer packing consists of 5 to 10 layers of flexible transparent plastics, such as ethylene vinyl alcohol or polyvinylidene chloride, or a combination thereof and the bottle may be enclosed under vacuum within the outer packing. An oxygen indicating capsule may be arranged between the bottle and outer packing.