post-packaging pasteurization

Food Safety

Benefits to post-packaging pasteurization

August 1, 2019

The prime benefit of post-packaging pasteurization is food safety through re-pasteurizing the surface on products that were re-exposed after cooking.

Food Safety

Options abound for processors who want a post-packaging pasteurization kill step

Elizabeth Fuhrman

August 1, 2018

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Post-packaging pasteurization offers a multitude of benefits for processors in the meat and poultry industry.

Providing another barrier for pathogens

Post-harvest pasteurization methods protect against foodborne pathogens, while keeping labels clean.

Megan Pellegrini

August 18, 2015

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Processors use post-harvest pasteurization methods to put another barrier between their product and Listeria — their clean, sustainable qualities are an added benefit.

Post-packaging pasteurization: Using heat to reduce risk

Lynn Knipe

November 12, 2014

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Post-packaging pasteurization has become an important intervention for reducing the Listeria monocytogenes hazard in packages of ready-to-eat (RTE) meat products, as well as extending the shelf life of RTE products.