RE: Radio Frequency Processing

From: Susan Cummings (sjcummings@ucdavis.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 11 2003 - 10:12:19 PDT

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    Hi All
    Everyone getting ready for the school year to start?. . .sure seems like
    summer just flew past
    I'm forwarding this 'cause I am wondering if any of us will see this
    technology in the (near?) future
    s

    At 09:07 AM 9/11/2003 -0700, Kolbe, Ed wrote:
    >Mr Simpson,
    >Oregon State University has been involved in research whose mission is
    >rapid heating of packaged foods and agricultural products. We have
    >obtained two patents on the process and my colleagues continue to seek
    >research funding and industry collaborators. I will copy the principal
    >participants on this message; feel free to contact them further.
    >
    >Ed Kolbe
    >Oregon State University
    >
    >cc
    >Ben Flugstad
    >Yanyun Zhao
    >Qingyue Ling
    >John Henry Wells
    >
    >-----Original Message-----
    >From: A.J Simpson [mailto:asimpson@phillipsfoods.com]
    >Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 1:09 PM
    >To: Pamela Tom
    >Cc: Seafood HACCP Mailing List
    >Subject: Re: Radio Frequency Processing
    >
    >
    >Thank you Pamela. I am looking to take this further down the chain into the
    >practical and commercial application set ups such as at TOPS and AKIYAMA.
    >The engineering involved and design of the machines and application in
    >production lines to assess how this could possibly fit into our production.
    >The website you mentioned does take this into consideration and is useful.
    >
    >Kind regards / Adrian
    >
    >
    >----- Original Message -----
    >From: "Pamela Tom" <pdtom@ucdavis.edu>
    >To: "A.J Simpson" <asimpson@phillipsfoods.com>
    >Cc: "Seafood HACCP Mailing List" <seafood@ucdavis.edu>
    >Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 7:17 PM
    >Subject: Re: Radio Frequency Processing
    >
    >
    > > Hi Adrian and Seafood HACCP Mailing List Community:
    > >
    > > The Institute of Food Technologists and the U.S. Food and Drug
    > > Administration has a web document, "Kinetics of Microbial Inactivation for
    > > Alternative Food Processing Technologies," on-line at:
    > > http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~comm/ift-toc.html
    > >
    > > This document includes:
    > > - Microwave and Radio Frequency
    > > - Ohmic and Inductive Heating
    > > - High Pressure Processing
    > > - Pulsed Electric Field
    > > - High Voltage Arc Discharge
    > > - Pulsed Light
    > > - Oscillating Magnetic Fields
    > > - Ultraviolet Light
    > > - Ultrasound
    > > - X-rays
    > >
    > > Pamela Tom
    > > University of California
    > > Sea Grant Extension Program
    > >
    > >
    > > On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, A.J Simpson wrote:
    > >
    > > > I would like to learn more about Radio Frequency processing including
    > > > existing succesful industrial applications by companies such as TOPS and
    > > > AKIYAMA. Can anybody point me in the right direction ? Does anybody
    >know
    > > > who the engineers were who worked on the instalations ?
    > > >
    > > > Regards / Adrian Simpson
    > >

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