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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2002
Eldon Roth, Dakota Dunes, SD (US);
Eldon Roth, Dakota Dunes, SD (US);
Freezing Machines, Inc., Dakota Dunes, SD (US);
Abstract
An enclosure treatment method includes introducing a pH increasing material into an enclosure adapted to contain meat products. Introducing the pH increasing material creates a desired pH increasing gas content in the atmosphere within the enclosure. The method also includes the step of maintaining the pH increasing gas content in the enclosure atmosphere while meat products are contained in the enclosure. The pH increasing gas in the enclosure atmosphere is absorbed into water in the enclosure to increase the pH of the water. The water affected in the present treatment process may be moisture collecting on various surfaces within the enclosure, or may be moisture within the meat products being stored in the enclosure. In any event, the increased pH is inhospitable to most microbes and reduces or suppresses microbe activity in the water either by retarding propagation or killing microbes outright.