Process for sterilization and production of fish meat paste product with use of microbubble and sterile fish meat paste product obtained by the process

• US 20070020378A1
• Filed: 10/01/2004
• Published: 01/25/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seizo Shirade
• Original Assignee: Seizo Shirade
• Inventors: Shirade, Tesuya
• Application Number:
  US10/575,973
• Publication Number:
  US 20070020378A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 426/643
• CPC Class Codes: A23B 4/16 in the form of gases, e.g. fumigation; Compositions or apparatus therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 17/70 Comminuted, e.g. emulsified, fish products; Processed products therefrom such as pastes, reformed or compressed products A23L17/65, A23L17/10, A23L17/20, A23L17/40, A23L17/50 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 3/3409 in the form of gases, e.g. fumigation; Compositions or apparatus therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2002/00 Food compositions, function of food ingredients or processes for food or foodstuffs
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2200/10 Preserving against microbes
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2250/128 Ozone

Abstract

This invention relates to a method of sterilizing and producing a fish-paste product by utilizing microbubbles, which comprises the steps consisting of adding ozone gas-containing microbubbles generated in water to raw materials of a fish-paste product, coating the interfaces of the ozone gas-containing microbubbles with tissues in raw materials of a fish-paste product thereby maintaining the longevity of the ozone gas-containing microbubbles, and stimulating the ozone gas-containing microbubbles thereby rupturing coating shells of the ozone gas-containing microbubbles, as well as a germ-free fish-paste product produced by the production method.

Claims

1. A method for sterilizing and producing a fish-paste product by utilizing microbubbles comprising the steps of:

adding ozone gas-containing microbubbles generated in water to raw materials of a fish-paste product,

coating the interfaces of the ozone gas-containing microbubbles with tissues in raw materials of the fish-paste product thereby maintaining the longevity of the ozone gas-containing microbubbles, and

giving stimulation to a part of the ozone gas-containing microbubbles thereby rupturing coating shells of the ozone gas-containing microbubbles.

2. A germ-free fish-paste product maintaining an antibacterial ability obtained by the sterilizing production method described in claim 1.

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein the step of adding the ozone gas-containing microbubbles to raw materials of the fish-paste product comprises adding water containing the ozone gas-containing microbubbles.

5. A method according to claim 1, wherein the step of adding ozone gas-containing microbubbles to raw materials of the fish-paste product comprises spray a mist of water containing the ozone gas-containing microbubbles.

7. A method according to claim 1, wherein the tissues are protein and lipid contained in the fish-paste product.

9. A method according to claim 1, wherein the stimulation comprises rubbing together raw materials of the fish-paste products at the time of pestling of the raw materials.

11. A method according to claim 1, wherein the stimulation comprises high-frequency irradiation of raw materials of the fish-paste product.

13. A method according to claim 1, wherein the stimulation comprises microwave irradiation of raw materials of the fish-paste product.

15. A method according to claim 1, wherein the stimulation comprises heating raw materials of the fish-paste product.

17. A method according to claim 1, wherein in the step of processing and packaging the fish-paste product following the step of rupturing coating shells of the ozone gas-containing microbubbles, the packaged fish-paste product are subjected to the stimulation to rupture coating shells of the ozone gas-containing microbubbles contained in the fish-paste products thereby sterilizing the fish-paste product.

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