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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2005
Ann W. Brackenridge, Benton, KS (US);
Curtis Cundith, Wichita, KS (US);
Scott J. Eilert, Wichita, KS (US);
Nancy Rathje, Wichita, KS (US);
Barney Wilborn, Auburn, AL (US);
David C. Ruzek, Austin, MN (US);
Forrest D. Dryden, Austin, MN (US);
Bruce C. Paterson, Marshall, MN (US);
Ann W. Brackenridge, Benton, KS (US);
Curtis Cundith, Wichita, KS (US);
Scott J. Eilert, Wichita, KS (US);
Nancy Rathje, Wichita, KS (US);
Barney Wilborn, Auburn, AL (US);
David C. Ruzek, Austin, MN (US);
Forrest D. Dryden, Austin, MN (US);
Bruce C. Paterson, Marshall, MN (US);
Cargill, Incorporated, Wayzata, MN (US);
Hormel Foods, LLC, Austin, MN (US);
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.