Excerpts from the report Introduction: Previous studies indicate that refrigeration extends the keeping quality of cranberries. No published data, however, have been found on the aspect of continuous refrigeration; that is, starting at the time the cranberries are placed in storage and ending with the commodity on the retail shelf. The Massachusetts cranberry industry has expressed an interest in the possibility of using cold storage instead of common storage in the producing area. Accordingly, an integrated study was made of the continuous refrigeration of cranberries from the 1957 crop, involving their storage, followed by prepackaging, and their subsequent holding qualities.