Objective The proposed project will investigate radio-frequency heating of foods in flexible vacuum pouches during water immersion and its application to minimally processing of convenience cook/chill or cook/freeze fish products. The rapid volume heating of the process is expected to reduce overcooking of the heat sensitive fish flesh and to result in better product quality while maintaining product safety and shelf life. Application of the process is expected in fish processing as well as enlarge food service companies, the processed products will go to the retail market and to food service. The proposed project covers process adaptation and optimisation, investigation of safety and microbiological process validation, validation of achieved product quality, and estimation of processing cost and of potential convenience fish product markets. Expected project results will enable the industrial implementation of the process and will help to judge the potential and economy of the novel process for producing high quality prepared fishmeals. Fields of science engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsradio technologyradio frequency Programme(s) FP5-LIFE QUALITY - Specific Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Quality of life and management of living resources", 1998-2002 Topic(s) 1.1.1.-1. - Key action Food, Nutrition and Health Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.* Address 35,giggenhauser strasse 35 85354 Freising Germany See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all FJORDJOEKKEN AS Norway EU contribution € 0,00 Address Djuphodl 2 4368 Varhaug See on map HB GRANDI HF. Iceland EU contribution € 0,00 Address Nordurgardi 101 Reykjavik See on map HUHTAMAKI RONSBERG, ZWEIGNIEDERLASSUNG DER HUHTAMAKI DEUTSCHLAND GMBH & CO KG Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Hch.-nicolaus-strasse 6 87671 Ronsberg See on map ICELANDIC FISHERIES LABORATORIES Iceland EU contribution € 0,00 Address Skulagata 4 0101 Reykjavik See on map KIEFEL GMBH Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Industriestrasse 17-19 83395 Freilassing See on map NORCONSERV AS Norway EU contribution € 0,00 Address Niels juelsgt, 50 4008 Stavanger See on map
