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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 1983
Filed:
Sep. 15, 1981
Walter W Egee, Wallingford, PA (US);
David A Rickansrud, Voorhees, NJ (US);
Campbell Soup Company, Camden, NJ (US);
Abstract
The fact that meatballs in a casing have been heated to a predetermined temperature sufficient to inactivate the virus of foot and mouth disease is permanently indicated by using a holder device to position a temperature recorder at the thermal 'cold-spot' of the mass of meatballs. The temperature recorder is preferably of the type which permanently changes color when heated to the desired predetermined temperature, and the holder may be an apertured disc to which the temperature recorder is secured by an enveloping netting. An import inspector will then be able to ascertain that the meat has been previously heated to the desired temperature by observing the color of the temperature recorder.