Patents Assigned to Swift Independent Packing Company
  • Tenderization of meat by natural enzyme control
    Patent number: 4336271
    Abstract: Method for accelerating the tenderization of meat by natural enzymes by antemortem injection of selected activators of specific natural enzymes and/or binding agents for enzyme inhibitors naturally present in meat, promptly slaughtering the animal or fowl after injection and holding the meat within the optimum temperature range of the natural enzyme for about 2 days.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1982
    Assignee: Swift Independent Packing Company
    Inventors: Chunghee K. Kang, Ronald F. Jodlowski, Thomas H. Donnelly, William D. Warner