Synergistic cold sterilizing and preserving method for fresh meat with high voltage electric field plasma and nano photocatalysis

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10450098-B2
Application number	US-201415305727-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 21, 2014
Priority date	Jul 18, 2014
Publication date	Oct 22, 2019
Grant date	Oct 22, 2019

Abstract

Disclosed is a synergistic sterilizing and preserving method for fresh meat with high voltage electric field plasma and nano photocatalysis, which belongs to the technical field of cold sterilization of food package. The method comprises the steps: uniformly mixing a photocatalyst, a coupling agent and coating liquid at a high speed, performing the coupling to obtain modified coating liquid, smearing the coating liquid onto the surface of a plastic packaging film to obtain a packaging material with a photocatalytic bacteriostatic function, packaging fresh meat in an MAP (modified atmosphere packing) manner by adopting the bacteriostatic packaging material, wherein a coating containing the photocatalytic material is disposed at the inner side of a package, placing the packed fresh meat between two electrodes of a plasma generating device, and performing the plasma sterilization under the condition of a high voltage electric field.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A synergistic cold sterilizing and preserving method for fresh meat with plasma and nano photocatalysis, comprising:
(1) preparing a bacteriostatic packaging material having a photocatalytic bacteriostatic function, the preparing of the bacteriostatic packaging material comprising uniformly mixing a photocatalyst, a coupling agent and a coating liquid to form a mixture, performing coupling to obtain a modified coating liquid, and smearing the modified coating liquid onto a surface of a plastic packaging film to form a coating on the surface, wherein the photocatalyst is at least one of nano TiO 2 , nano ZnO and nano Fe 2 O 3 , wherein an amount of the photocatalyst in the mixture is 0.3-2 g/L of coating liquid and wherein a mass concentration of the coating liquid in the mixture is 2-8%;
(2) packaging fresh meat in an MAP manner by placing the fresh meat within a package comprised of the bacteriostatic packaging material, and introducing a gas into the package, wherein the gas is at least one of carbon dioxide, oxygen, nitrogen, helium, neon and argon, and wherein the coating is disposed at an inner side of the package; and
(3) placing the MAP packaged fresh meat between two electrodes of a plasma generating device, and performing plasma sterilization under a condition of an electric field, wherein a voltage strength of the plasma generating device is 10-50 kv/cm, and a processing time is 1 second to 6 minutes.

2. The synergistic cold sterilizing and preserving method for fresh meat with plasma and nano photocatalysis according to claim 1 , wherein a material of the plastic packaging film is polyamide, polypropylene, polyethylene or polyester.

3. The synergistic cold sterilizing and preserving method for fresh meat with plasma and nano photocatalysis according to claim 1 , wherein the coating liquid is PVA coating liquid, PE coating liquid or PVDC coating liquid.

4. The synergistic cold sterilizing and preserving method for fresh meat with plasma and nano photocatalysis according to claim 1 , wherein the plasma generating device comprises a voltage regulator, an electric field generator, an upper electrode, an upper insulation protection plate, a lower electrode and a lower insulation protection plate, wherein the MAP packaged fresh meat is placed between the upper electrode and the lower electrode; the upper insulation protection plate is arranged between an upper surface of a packaging box and the upper electrode, and the lower insulation protection plate is arranged between a lower surface of the packaging box and the lower electrode.

5. The synergistic cold sterilizing and preserving method for fresh meat with plasma and nano photocatalysis according to claim 4 , wherein the upper protection plate and the lower insulation protection plate are each a polypropylene or polyethylene plate, a thickness of the upper protection plate is 1.3-1.8 mm, and a thickness of the lower protection plate is 1.8-3.5 mm.

Assignees

• Univ Nanjing Agricultural

Inventors

• Zhang Jianhao
• Wang Jiamei
• Zhuang Hong

Classifications

• B65B55/12 Primary

  Sterilising contents prior to, or during, packaging · CPC title

• A23B4/00

  Preservation of meat, sausages, fish or fish products · CPC title

• A23V2002/00

  Food compositions, function of food ingredients or processes for food or foodstuffs · CPC title

• A23B4/015 Primary

  Preserving by irradiation or electric treatment without heating effect · CPC title