METHOD FOR APPLICATION OF MARKING ON FOOD PRODUCT IN CASING Russian patent published in 2011 - IPC A22C17/00 

FIELD: food industry.

SUBSTANCE: invention is intended for application in the process of production of sausage products in natural casing. For moulding and sizing, the product is placed in a casing of natural material with samplers or matrices or relief elements impermeable for water, vapour and smoke applied on at least part of the casing. Then one performs settling of the product, its heat treatment, additional frying, soft-smoking, sprinkling. One performs removal of samplers or matrices or relief elements. All of them are made of environmentally safe materials. Inscriptions and figures including the manufacturer's trademark may be applied on the samplers or matrices. The food product includes a meat product, in particular, a cooked, cooked-and-smoked or half-smoked sausage. The natural material for the casing may be represented by bung and/or bulb and/or back gut and/or another material produced of animals viscera. After heat treatment one obtains areas on the food product surface that are coloured lighter than the rest of surface in accordance with marks positions. The prints may be prominent or indented.

EFFECT: invention ensures production of a sharp, stable contrast image without interference with the current production process.

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