Cargill Inc.

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Hormel Foods Corporation

Scott J Eilert

Curtis J Cundith

Jerome D Leising

David C Ruzek

Bruce C Paterson

Barney Wilborn

Max England

Frederick William Holzhauer

Ann W Brackenridge

Melissa A Schrader

Francois S Bere

Nancy Rathje

Forrest D Dryden

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.

Packaging of meat products with modified atmospheres and/or enhancers

The present invention is an enhanced fresh meat composition and method of making the same. The fresh processed meat composition is made from post-rigor meat and includes a bicarbonate additive.

Meat enhancement system

A method for removing oral cavity staining in a hog carcass is provided by the invention. The method includes steps of providing a carcass including an oral cavity, applying an aqueous stain removing solution including an oxygen bleaching agent to the oral cavity, and removing the aqueous stain removing solution from the oral cavity. In the preferred embodiments, the aqueous stain removing solution includes an aqueous sodium percarbonate solution containing between about 1% by weight and about 8% by weight sodium percarbonate, and is provided at a pH of between about 9.5 and about 12.0.

Method for removing oral cavity staining, method for processing hogs,

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Wichita, KS, United States of America

Scott J Eilert