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The rollout of the coronavirus vaccine could hurt the dairy and cheese industries due to an increase in dry ice demand

Dry ice, the colloquial term for frozen carbon dioxide, is commonly used in the food industry to keep ingredients at a low temperature for cross-country travel. A block of dry ice has a temperature of about -109.3 degrees Fahrenheit, or -78 degrees Celsius — much colder than the average freezer or a standard ice cube made of water.

to support the state's nine ethanol producers. Carbon dioxide is a byproduct of ethanol production and can later be processed into dry ice. As Minnesota's governor alluded to on Tuesday, the increase in demand for dry ice could interrupt the cheese and dairy industries which also rely on dry ice., the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association recently appealed to state and federal officials to reserve the necessary 350,000 pounds of dry ice every week to keep up with the demand.

 

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