Method for preserving food products and products made thereby

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A method for preserving a food product; such as meat is provided. The method , comprises the steps of inoculating meat with an effective amount of euhygienic non-pathogenic non-spoilage bacteria , in order to competitively inhibit the growth of undesired pathogenic and spoilage bacteria. Preferably either L. delbrueckii or , Hafnia alvei bacteria are used to inoculate a meat product. Bacteria present on a meat product is first reduced to a number below about 5000 bacteria per gram of meat, e.g. by dehairing an animal and then spraying the meat with an organic acid prior to inoculation with euhygienic bacteria. The meat product is then vacuum packaged and stored in a refrigerated …