Breakthrough Technology Minimizes Microbiological Growth in Store-Packed Meat and Poultry Products

To help grocers maintain the safety, appearance, and marketability of store-packed meat and poultry, Paper Pak Industries launched UltraZapXtendaPak_s, a revolutionary active absorbent food pad. Developed by a team of food industry and packaging experts, UltraZapXtendaPak_s maintains the food product's organoleptic features - smell, color and texture - through a technologically advanced, proprietary system.

UltraZapXtendaPak_s minimizes the bacterial growth in store-packaged meat and poultry through a patented process. Additives in the pad produce carbon dioxide (CO₂), an inert gas known to have bacteriostatic properties. Moisture from the store-packed meat and poultry is absorbed by the UltraZapXtendaPak_s cellulose pad, which then produces a steady stream of CO₂ gas inside the package. The carbon dioxide gas wraps itself around the meat, creating an envelope that helps retard the growth of spoilage bacteria present on the surface of the meat.

A second anti-bacterial ingredient integrated in the UltraZapXtendaPak_s pad reduces the bacterial growth inside the cellulose pad and in the purge. A reduction of bacterial growth slows the natural decay process of packaged meat and poultry, allowing the product to maintain better color, smell and feel on the second, third, and fourth day.

According to Dr. Aaron L. Brody, President and CEO of Packaging/Brody, Inc., UltraZapXtendaPak offers tremendous benefits to the meat and poultry industry. "UltraZapXtendaPak has innovatively applied modern principles of active packaging to generate synergistic natural antimicrobial effects in pads that constitute an integral component of in-store packages to help retard adverse microbiological changes in fresh meat or poultry. By incorporating the natural preservative effects of carbon dioxide into packaging, Paper Pak Industries is offering a remarkable breakthrough in fresh meat and poultry packaging for supermarket operators."

UltraZapXtendaPak_s offers a number of features preferred by the leading grocery retailers, including a variety of colors, a variety of absorbency levels and a new and improved, highly opaque film that masks the purge absorbed inside the pad. All of the active ingredients and additives in the pad comply with the U.S. government's food packaging safety standards.

To learn more, or to place an order, please contact our Vice-President, Sales & Marketing John Terrien directly via telephone at (972) 377-8100 or via email at [email protected].