Patent ID: 7767240

Claim:
A method of providing microbiological control in poultry processing, which method comprises disinfecting with a halogen-based microbiocide A) carcasses and/or other parts of poultry resulting from such processing, and B) at least one of (1), (2), (3), (4), where (1), (2), (3), (4) are (1) equipment used in the processing of poultry, (2) instruments used in the processing of poultry, (3) apparatus used in the processing of poultry, (4) water used in the processing of poultry; wherein said halogen-based microbiocide is (I) an aqueous microbiocidal solution of one or more active halogen species, which solution is a derivative product in an aqueous medium of (a) bromine, chlorine, or bromine chloride, or any two or all three thereof, and (b) a water-soluble source of sulfamate anion; or (II) an aqueous microbiocidal solution of one or more active halogen species, which solution is a derivative product in an aqueous medium of at least one 1,3-dihalo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin in which one of the halogen atoms is a chlorine atom and the other is a chlorine or bromine atom, and in which each of the alkyl groups, independently, contains in the range of 1 to about 4 carbon atoms; or (III) an aqueous microbiocidal solution of one or more active halogen species, which solution is a derivative product in an aqueous medium of at least one 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin in which one of the alkyl groups is a methyl group and the other alkyl group contains in the range of 1 to about 4 carbon atoms; or (IV) any two or more of (I), (II), and (III).