Microplasma disinfection of meat
24 January 2018
Focus area: Food safety
Program stream: Product & process integrity
Project number: 2016-1365
This work investigated the new opportunity presented by micro-plasma treatments of atmospheric gases. Such treatments have the advantage, over chemical treatments, that no chemical residue will be left.
In a market where bacterial contamination of meat products can cause severe financial and other losses, the micro-plasma technology appears to give useful degrees of inactivation of several micro-organisms found on packaged meat cuts.