Abstract: A packaging tray including an outer tray (1), having a base (4) and side walls (2) defining a packaging space and false bottom (10) of the tray defining a discrete exudate-collection compartment immediately above the base and reducing the packaging space by the size of the discrete compartment. The false bottom is peripherally connected to the walls and provided with an array of perforations (36) in a discrete minor central region (20) to allow exudate to pass through itself into the exudate-collection compartment. In addition, the tray includes means (28, 30) for gas transfer between the exudate-collection compartment and the packaging space, in addition to and separate from the perforations in the false bottom, and including means inhibiting flow exudate back into the packaging space.

Abstract: A packaging tray including an outer tray (1), having a base (4) and side walls (2) defining a packaging space and false bottom (10) of the tray defining a discrete exudate-collection compartment immediately above the base and reducing the packaging space by the size of the discrete compartment. The false bottom is peripherally connected to the walls and provided with an array of perforations (36) in a discrete minor central region (20) to allow exudate to pass through itself into the exudate-collection compartment. In addition, the tray includes means (28, 30) for gas transfer between the exudate-collection compartment and the packaging space, in addition to and separate from the perforations in the false bottom, and including means inhibiting flow exudate back into the packaging space.