Microplasma disinfection of meat

24 January 2018
Focus area: Product & process integrity
Program stream: Food safety
Project number: 2016-1365
The prevention and control of bacterial contamination is vital to the reputation and commercial viability of meat processors.

This work investigated the new opportunity presented by micro-plasma treatments of atmospheric gases. Such treatments have the advantage, over chemical treatments, that no chemical residue will be left.

In a market where bacterial contamination of meat products can cause severe financial and other losses, the micro-plasma technology appears to give useful degrees of inactivation of several micro-organisms found on packaged meat cuts.

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