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Skin packs for sous vide meat joints

Skin packs for sous vide meat joints

By Rick Pendrous

Food packaging manufacturer Linpac, part of Klöckner Pentaplast, has collaborated with meat processor Dunbia to introduce a convenient ‘quick roast’ joint pack concept called Prime Cook to the shelves of Co-op supermarkets.

Meat firm cuts processing time with flame pasteurising

Flame pasteurising for pathogen control

Until recently, Belgium-based Luka Meats’ smoked, roasted, and extra-lean hams and meatloaves were pasteurised, browned and seared using a hand-held torch. When handling 1,200 hams and 300-400 loafs a week became too time-consuming, the firm automated...

Coffee manufacturer's new bean sorter

Spot the chemical difference

German coffee manufacturer Melitta asked equipment specialist Bühler to supply an optical sorter to remove broken, under- and over-roasted coffee beans, as well as foreign materials, such as very small sticks and stones. Crucially, this had to be achieved...

Where’s the beef? Passing cheap beef off as lamb has been a ‘widespread’ practice by some Scottish curry houses who probably ‘knew what they were doing’, claims a leading bacteriologist

Scottish curry houses pass cheap beef off as lamb

By Lorraine Mullaney

Passing cheap beef off as lamb has been a “widespread” practice by some Scottish curry houses which probably knew “full well what they were doing”, according to a leading bacteriologist.

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