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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2013
Applicant:
Novasterilis, Inc., Ithaca, NY (US);
Inventors:
David Burns, Ithaca, NY (US);
Thomas Steffie, Ithaca, NY (US);
Alecia Eppelsheimer, Auburn, NY (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A23B 4/033 (2006.01); A23B 4/16 (2006.01); A23B 4/005 (2006.01); A23L 3/3508 (2006.01); A23B 4/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A23B 4/0053 (2013.01); A23B 4/24 (2013.01); A23L 3/3508 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for sterilizing a ground meat product through the application supercritical COduring the processing of the meat by introducing supercritical COinto an extruder as the meat passes through the extruder while controlling the pressure and speed at which the meat passes through the extruder to maintain the meat in contact with the supercritical COfor a time sufficient to achieve a log reduction in colony forming units of microbial contaminants.