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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2000
Chung-Chi Chou, New Orleans, LA (US);
Ya-Guang Min, Mississauga, Ont., CA;
Da-Wei Gao, Metairie, LA (US);
Marc-Andre Theoleyre, 75020 Paris, FR;
Other;
Abstract
Process for manufacturing crystallized sugar from an aqueous sugar solution containing colorants, polyvalent cations such as Ca and Mg ions and possibly polyvalent anions, said process comprising the step of submitting said solution to a crystallization procedure to obtain a crystallized sugar, the process being characterized in that, in order to decrease the occlusion of colorants in the crystals of said crystallized sugar, it further comprises the step of treating said solution so as to increase the number of polyvalent anion equivalents such as adding CO anions with regard to the number of polyvalent cation equivalents in said solution.
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