Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Direct application of electrical or wave energy to food... – Involving wave energy of the sonic or pulsating type
Patent
1989-06-08
1991-07-23
Cintins, Marianne
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Direct application of electrical or wave energy to food...
Involving wave energy of the sonic or pulsating type
426248, 426399, 426410, 426413, 426521, 426407, 422 24, A23L 300, A23L 328, A16L 200
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050342355
ABSTRACT:
Methods for food product preservation by inactivation of microorganisms and/or enzymes by applying pulses of very intense, very short duration pulses of light in the visible and near visible frequencies to the surface of food products to be preserved. Also disclosed are packaging methods and apparatus utilizing such intense, short pulses of polychromatic, incoherent light.
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Asmus John F.
Boyer Keith
Clark R. Wayne
Dunn Joseph E.
Hofmann Gunter A.
Cintins Marianne
Maxwell Laboratories Inc.
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