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HPP

sliced turkey and chicken breast strips
are sold nationally at Costco and regionally at retailers including Safeway,
Albertsons and Wal-Mart. Of the 77
million pounds per year produced at
the facility, about half is sold at retail and the other half to foodservice
customers.

anywhere in terms of the amount of
throughput. Besides the production capability of the tandem system, Foster
Farms is able to run the entire operation
with just five employees. "They've augmented HPP with upstream and downstream automation to make it a very fast

"The throughput
Foster's is getting is
much higher than
any single installation
produced before."

Wanted: Clean labels
The demand for deli meats with clean
labels was a goal of the installation of
Foster Farms' system, says Rick Marshall, president of Gridpath, but it is
also a bonafide trend in the deli meats
segment. "The customer still wants
the integrity in the product, but they
want to be able to market it as 'all natural,'" he says. "This is similar to what
Hormel has done with their natural
line," he adds.
The Foster Farms system represents the single-largest system installed

and efficient line," Marshall says.
Marshall says the company approached Gridpath with the goal of enhancing food safety and offering a line
of products with clean labels. "The intent
for HPP was to enable them to have an

in-package kill step and also pull some
of the chemicals [preservatives] out of
the product," Marshall says. Besides
running two varieties of sliced turkey
products, the plant is also HPP treating
processing and flavored cooked, diced
chicken for its customers.
The NC Hyperbaric tandem system
uses two, 300-liter HPP vessels that
share a common pumping system, using one pressure intensifier for both
vessels. This arrangement results in
volumes that exceed what could be
processed by two separate systems because it achieves the rise to pressure
much quicker. Marshall reiterates: With
capacities ranging between 4,000 and
5,000 pounds an hour, "the throughput
Foster's is getting is much higher than
any single installation produced before."
The high throughput is enhanced by
Gridpath's system of conveyors, loading
and unloading equipment and product

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