Patent ID: 6716464
Filing Date: 2004-04-06
Classification: A23B

Abstract:
Process for the treatment of fresh meat, said fresh meat comprising fresh beef, pork, veal, lamb, game, poultry, horsemeat, fish, raw sausage and ham, in which the fresh meat is stored for a presettable time at a superatmospheric pressure in an air-tightly scalable space after supply of oxygen in an atmosphere essentially consisting of oxygen, characterized in that, during the supply of the oxygen, its temperature is selected such that, and the feed rate is set or controlled to be low enough that, the fresh meat does not freeze, in that the pressure during the storage is selected to be high enough, and the storage time long enough, so that the fresh meat is completely penetrated by oxygen, and in that, during removal of the oxygen, a removal rate is set or controlled to be low enough that, firstly, the fresh meat does not freeze and, secondly, the oxygen permeating the treated fresh meat is removed from the fresh meat without bubble formation.