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Method for mincing and prepackaging minced meat under controlled atmosphere and temperature

  • US 4,594,253 A
  • Filed: 03/21/1984
  • Issued: 06/10/1986
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/21/1984
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A process for continuous treatment of poultry carcasses for the manufacture of minced meat, comprising the steps of:

  • (i) injecting carbon dioxide snow inside the warm carcasses coming from the abattoir, after evisceration thereof;

    (ii) immediately performing a singeing operation on the carcasses inside which carbon dioxide snow has been injected;

    (iii) cooling the singed carcasses;

    (iv) de-boning the singed and cooled carcasses;

    (v) mincing the de-boned carcasses;

    (vi) shaping the minced meat and packaging it into containers,(vii) the mincing, shaping and packaging steps being carried out in a substantially thermally insulated and gas-tight enclosure within which the temperature is maintained at about 0°

    to -4°

    C. by introducing controlled quantities of carbon dioxide snow inside the enclosure while evacuating controlled quantities of the air and other gases contained within the enclosure.

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