Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Measuring – testing – or controlling by inanimate means
Reexamination Certificate
2005-05-24
2005-05-24
Yeung, George C. (Department: 1761)
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Measuring, testing, or controlling by inanimate means
C099S472000, C099S535000, C422S292000, C426S281000, C426S519000, C426S641000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06896921
ABSTRACT:
In one embodiment of the present invention a method for processing a plurality of food products includes loading the food products into a vacuum tumbler, filling the vacuum tumbler to a predetermined level with a processing solution having a pH level within a predetermined range, withdrawing air from the vacuum tumbler to create a partial vacuum, rotating the vacuum tumbler for a predetermined time period to expose the food products to the processing solution and the partial vacuum, periodically adding, during the predetermined time period, a predetermined amount of an organic acid to the processing solution to maintain the pH level within the predetermined range, and removing the food products from the vacuum tumbler after the predetermined time period.
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Custer Sandra E.
Forgey Robin L.
Groves Billy M.
Henderson Francis M.
Wilson Robert C.
Baker & Botts L.L.P.
Grovac Southern Select, L.C.
Yeung George C.
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