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Assessment of Performance of the Industrial Process of Bulk Vacuum Packaging of Raw Meat with Nondestructive Optical Oxygen Sensing Systems

The commercially-available optical oxygen-sensing system Optech-O(2) Platinum was applied to nondestructively assess the in situ performance of bulk, vacuum-packaged raw beef in three ~300 kg containers. Twenty sensors were attached to the inner surface of the standard bin-contained laminate bag (10...

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Autores principales: Kelly, Caroline A., Cruz-Romero, Malco, Kerry, Joseph P., Papkovsky, Dmitri P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5981195/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29724024
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18051395
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Kerry, Joseph P.
Papkovsky, Dmitri P.
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description The commercially-available optical oxygen-sensing system Optech-O(2) Platinum was applied to nondestructively assess the in situ performance of bulk, vacuum-packaged raw beef in three ~300 kg containers. Twenty sensors were attached to the inner surface of the standard bin-contained laminate bag (10 on the front and back sides), such that after filling with meat and sealing under vacuum, the sensors were accessible for optical interrogation with the external reader device. After filling and sealing each bag, the sensors were measured repetitively and nondestructively over a 15-day storage period at 1 °C, thus tracking residual oxygen distribution in the bag and changes during storage. The sensors revealed a number of unidentified meat quality and processing issues, and helped to improve the packaging process by pouring flakes of dry ice into the bag. Sensor utility in mapping the distribution of residual O(2) in sealed bulk containers and optimising and improving the packaging process, including handling and storage of bulk vacuum-packaged meat bins, was evident.
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spelling pubmed-59811952018-06-05 Assessment of Performance of the Industrial Process of Bulk Vacuum Packaging of Raw Meat with Nondestructive Optical Oxygen Sensing Systems Kelly, Caroline A. Cruz-Romero, Malco Kerry, Joseph P. Papkovsky, Dmitri P. Sensors (Basel) Article The commercially-available optical oxygen-sensing system Optech-O(2) Platinum was applied to nondestructively assess the in situ performance of bulk, vacuum-packaged raw beef in three ~300 kg containers. Twenty sensors were attached to the inner surface of the standard bin-contained laminate bag (10 on the front and back sides), such that after filling with meat and sealing under vacuum, the sensors were accessible for optical interrogation with the external reader device. After filling and sealing each bag, the sensors were measured repetitively and nondestructively over a 15-day storage period at 1 °C, thus tracking residual oxygen distribution in the bag and changes during storage. The sensors revealed a number of unidentified meat quality and processing issues, and helped to improve the packaging process by pouring flakes of dry ice into the bag. Sensor utility in mapping the distribution of residual O(2) in sealed bulk containers and optimising and improving the packaging process, including handling and storage of bulk vacuum-packaged meat bins, was evident. MDPI 2018-05-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5981195/ /pubmed/29724024 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18051395 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_short Assessment of Performance of the Industrial Process of Bulk Vacuum Packaging of Raw Meat with Nondestructive Optical Oxygen Sensing Systems
title_sort assessment of performance of the industrial process of bulk vacuum packaging of raw meat with nondestructive optical oxygen sensing systems
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5981195/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29724024
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18051395
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