Innovative technologies could improve food safety.

Part of a special section on promoting food safety. The writer discusses emerging technologies that U.S. food processors are exploring or implementing to help remove illness-causing pathogens in their products. He outlines government regulations that have sparked interest in new technologies; the...

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Publicado en:FoodReview Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 17 - 21
Autor principal: Majchrowicz, Alex
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: US Department of Agriculture May/August 1999
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Sumario:Part of a special section on promoting food safety. The writer discusses emerging technologies that U.S. food processors are exploring or implementing to help remove illness-causing pathogens in their products. He outlines government regulations that have sparked interest in new technologies; the benefits and costs of these new technologies for the producers; the effectiveness of the technologies; examples of thermal and nonthermal technologies; and the issues on which the adoption of pathogen reduction methods by food processors depends on.