METHOD FOR EXTENSION OF COOKED SAUSAGE MARKETABILITY PERIOD IN DISTRIBUTION NETWORK Russian patent published in 2011 - IPC A23L3/26 

FIELD: food industry.

SUBSTANCE: invention is intended for application in food industry in the course of cooked sausage storage. One lays out cooked sausages in natural and artificial protein casings for display on a refrigerated counter and during the whole marketing period treats them with blue light from a light-emitting-diode device mounted in the counter. The blue light wave length is 430 - 460 nm; intensity of light flux is 35 microwatt/cm²; capacity is 15 J/sec.

EFFECT: extension of cooked sausage storage life in distribution network by way of reduction of the product microbial contamination and lipids oxidation.

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