ADDING AN ADDITIVE TO A PRODUCT SUITABLE FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION

• Main Authors: VAN DEN NIEUWELAAR ADRIANUS JOSEPHES, KUIJPERS ANDRIES JOHAN MARTIJN, VAN ESBROECK MAURICE EDUARDUS THEODORUS
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 14.11.2013
• Subjects: APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL; ATOMISING APPARATUS; BAKING; BUTCHERING; CHEMICAL RIPENING OF FRUIT OR VEGETABLES; EDIBLE DOUGHS; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; HANDLING BAKED ARTICLES MADE FROM DOUGH; HUMAN NECESSITIES; MACHINES OR EQUIPMENT FOR MAKING OR PROCESSING DOUGHS; MEAT TREATMENT; NOZZLES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; PRESERVING, e.g. BY CANNING, MEAT, FISH, EGGS, FRUIT,VEGETABLES, EDIBLE SEEDS; PROCESSING MEAT, POULTRY, OR FISH; PROCESSING POULTRY OR FISH; SHAPING OR WORKING OF FOODSTUFFS, NOT FULLY COVERED BY ASINGLE OTHER SUBCLASS; SLAUGHTERING; SPRAYING APPARATUS; SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; THE PRESERVED, RIPENED, OR CANNED PRODUCTS; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES; TRANSPORTING

A method for treating a product suitable for human consumption, for example, a meat product, such as slaughtered poultry or parts thereof, in which a large number of products are successively supplied, optionally in groups, to an inspection station in which each product is subjected to a visual inspection to detect a defect on the respective product. If a decision is made to provide a specific additive-addition treatment to a product, the product is supplied to an additive-addition station, where the product is subjected to an additive-addition treatment and an additive is added to at least one part of the outside of each product or the inside of each product.