METHOD FOR TREATMENT OF DRIED FLYING FISH CAVIAR SEMI-PRODUCT Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC A23L1/328 

FIELD: food industry.

SUBSTANCE: caviar with weight no more than 10 kg is placed into a wire basket with mesh sized 0.8-0.9 mm; treatment is performed in two stages. At the first stage, the basket with caviar is maintained during 5-10 minutes in a vessel with electrochemically activated water with pH equal to 3-4 under the conditions of continuous mechanical stirring at a rate of 1-3 rps. Then one performs draining and repeated treatment during 15 minutes. At the second stage, caviar is twice washed with 8-10°C culinary salt solution with density equal to 1.005 kg/m³; each washing operation duration being 4 minutes. At all the treatment stages, water duty of caviar to water is maintained at the level of 1:7-1:10.

EFFECT: product bacterial population reduction.

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