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RELIABILITY OF THE TINPLATE CAN FOR PACKAGING OF RADAPPERTIZED BEEF UNDER PRODUCTION CONDITIONS
Author(s) -
KILLORAN JOHN J.,
HOWKER JOHN J.,
WIERBICKI EUGEN
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of food processing and preservation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.511
H-Index - 48
eISSN - 1745-4549
pISSN - 0145-8892
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-4549.1978.tb00567.x
Subject(s) - container (type theory) , reliability (semiconductor) , environmental science , waste management , food science , materials science , chemistry , engineering , composite material , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics
The tinplate can has performed successfully for over a century as a container for thermal processed foods. As a container for irradiation processed foods, its physical, chemical, and protective characteristics had to be evaluated anew. In providing gamma ray irradiated beef in the tinplate can for wholesomeness studies, the reliability of this container for radappertized beef was determined over a significant production period. The production data showed that it is feasible to reliably prepare the cans of beef in a commercial plant, transport the frozen cans of beef packed in fiberboard boxes on commercial equipment, irradiate the frozen cans of beef, transport the radappertized cans of beef at ambient temperature a distance of 3.5 × 10 6 m (1200 miles), and store the non‐refrigerated cans of beef over a 2‐year period without any adverse effects on the beef.