Boxed meat

FABRICATED PACKAGED MEAT. With the advent of the refrigerator car, meat was shipped in exposed halves, quarters, or wholesale cuts, and divided into retail cuts in the back rooms of meat markets. But this traditional procedure leaves much to be desired from the standpoints of efficiency, sanitation, shrink, spoilage, and discoloration. To improve this situation, more and more packers are fabricating and packaging (boxing) meat in their plants, thereby freeing the back rooms of 200,000 supermarkets. 

Nylon films are used in lamination or coated form to ensure heat sealabiHty and enhance barrier properties. The largest uses are as thermoforming webs for twin-web processed meat and cheese packagiag under vacuum or in an inert atmosphere. Other uses include bags for red meat, boil-ia-bags, bag-in-box for wine, and as the outer protective layer for aluminum foil in cookie and vacuum coffee packages. 

Meat and fish are very liable to bacterial putrefaction in this connection an interesting innovation is the increasing use of easily cleaned aluminium fish boxes. It is also possible that copper should be avoided in contact with herrings, which have a high fat content. 

Example 15.1 What will be the internal dimensions of a cold room to store 900 t of boxed frozen meat if the box size is 700 X 450 X 150 mm and the net weight 30 kg ... 

Packing of wine, water, fruit juices, tomato puree ( bag in box ) Packing of fertilizers and herbicides Packing for cooked meat... 

S. GRIVAS—Swedish Meat Research Institute, P.O. Box 504, S-244 00 Kavlinge, Sweden... 

Other fused heterocycles have very attractive flavour and odour properties. Pyrazines, in general, are important in many strong food flavours a fused pyrazine with a ring junction nitrogen atom is one of the most important components in the smell of roast meat. You can read about the simple pyrazine that provides green peppers with their flavour in the Box on the next page. 

In packaging, Ecoflex can be used as a coating material to make paper, cardboard or starch-based foam tougher and protect against fat, moisture and temperature variations. These are useful properties for hamburger boxes, coffee cups, packaging for meat, fish, poultry, fruit or vegetables, food dishes and fast-food boxes. 

Poly(styrene) Yoghurt pots, plastic cutlery, foamed meat/fish trays, hamburger boxes... 

The 1993 Jack-in-the-Box epidemic caused by E. coli, which received widespread media attention, brought concern for food protection and preparation into the national limelight. Hamburger meat contaminated in meat processing plants was identified as the possible source of infection. Over 400 people became ill and four children died as a result of consuming the contaminated meat (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1993). 

Food items that you might consider including in your disaster supply kit include ready-to-eat meats, fruits, and vegetables canned or boxed juices, milk, and soup high-energy foods like peanut butter, jelly, low-sodium crackers, granola bars, and trail mix vitamins foods for infants or persons on special diets cookies, hard candy instant coffee, cereals, and powdered milk. 

Processed meat products Polyethylene bag within a printed cartonboard box Polyethylene/printing inks/polyester laminate Printed polyethylene to which a printed sticky label was applied Polypropylene container to which a printed sticky label was applied with a polystryrene lid... 

C Consider ihc freezing of packaged meal in boxes with refrigerated air. How do (a) the temperature of air, (h) the velocity of air, (c) the capacity of the refrigeration system, and (d) the size of the meat boxes affect the freezing lime ... 

Figure 2. Slime-forming organisms exposed in meat box...

You probably come into contact with polystyrene, PS or 6, almost every day. It is used to make foam egg cartons and meat trays, serving containers for fast food chains, CD "jewel boxes,"... 

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