Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Packaged or wrapped product – Packaged product is animal flesh
Reexamination Certificate
2011-05-03
2011-05-03
Hendricks, Keith D (Department: 1781)
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Packaged or wrapped product
Packaged product is animal flesh
C426S106000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07935373
ABSTRACT:
Packaged meat products, methods of packaging meat, and systems for packaging meat. With respect to packaged meat products, one particular embodiment of a packaged meat product comprises a container having a low gas permeability and an enclosed interior volume. The packaged meat product further includes a meat product enclosed within the interior volume of the container and a modified atmosphere comprising not greater than about 10% carbon monoxide within the interior volume of the container. The meat product has a first volume less than the interior volume, and the modified atmosphere has a second volume such that a volume ratio of the second volume to the first volume is not greater than approximately 1:1.
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Brackenridge Ann W.
Cundith Curtis
Dryden Forrest D.
Eilert Scott J.
Paterson Bruce C.
Cargill Incorporated
Chawla Jyoti
Hendricks Keith D
Hormel Foods, LLC
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