Aseptic Processing of Foods Containing Solid Particulates by: Sudhir K. Sastry and Bill D. Cornelius

The technology of aseptic processing of particulate foods promises lower packaging costs and higher food quality and safety. The process, however, has yet to be regulated, and the majority of the innovative research performed in the past decade remains uncollected.

The fundamental challenge of the method is simple: how to determine the temperature within a freely flowing solid piece (particle) entrained in a viscous fluid stream, considering that the fluid and solid must achieve uniform composition at outlet, and that the solid is of significant size. Aseptic Processing thoroughly incorporates the three disciplines intimately involved with this question: engineering, microbiology, and statistics. The text details critical experiments conducted with an eye toward developing uniform parameters for operation.

CONTENTS:
Flow and residence time distributions of solid-liquid mixtures • Fluid-solid convective heat transfer • Statistical design and analysis and microbiological validation • Hazard analysis and critical control point evaluation of a multiphase food product aseptic system • The filing process for FDA approval.

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250 pages, 2002, Hardbound - ISBN 0-471-36359-6

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