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US 12,310,368 B2Granted
Method for the prophylactic treatment of a food product
AssigneeSolvay SA
InventorsOlivier Patat, Jean-Philippe Pascal, Mathieu Belmond
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Abstract
Method for the prophylactic treatment of the development of parasites in a food product with a powder comprising more than 40% by weight of an alkali metal bicarbonate, wherein the powder is in the form of particles having a medium particle size of at most 300 μm, and said treatment comprising mixing the powder with the food product, characterized in that at most 1000 ppm by weight of the powder is mixed with the food product.
Claims20
A method for treating a food product for:
- a combined prophylactic effect against the development in the food product stored in a storage silo of insects, acarids, fungi, and mycotoxins;
- and improving dedusting of the food product,
- wherein the food product is selected from the group consisting of grains, beans and nuts;
- said method comprising mixing at least 50 ppm and at most 500 ppm by weight of a powder with the food product to form a barrier screen between the parasites and their food,
- wherein the powder comprises more than 40% by weight of an alkali metal bicarbonate,
- wherein the powder is in the form of particles having a median particle size of at most 300 μm, and
- wherein the mixing of the powder to the food product is carried out by dry spraying, and
- wherein the method for improving dust separation is performed during mechanical or gas-flow separation.
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