'POWDERED MEAT'

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 166, 16 July 1941, Page 4

'POWDERED MEAT'

SUCCESSFUL TESTS

STORAGE SPACE SAVED

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, this clay. A new process Tor treating meat for export, involving dehydration of the meat rendering it into powder form, was mentioned during a discussion on the meat situation by Mr. H. M. Rushworth (Auckland) at the annual conference in Wellington yesterday of the Farmers' Union.

The process had been the subject of experiment by the executive of the Auckland branch of the union, raid Mr. Rushworth. It had secured the services of an analytical chemist and dehydration expei't. As an outcome a powdered meat product had been evolved. Following a communication to Britain a cablegram had been received from the High Commissioner. Mr. W. J. Jordan, to t lie effect, that the British Food Ministry was interested in the process. * Subsequently it had been decided to send five hundredweight of dehydrated meat to England.

Mr. Rushwortn said the experiments showed that natural meat was reduced in value by only one-fifth and was a highly-concentrated food_. An analysis showed it to contain 75 per cent protein, 3 per cent moisture and 12 per cent fat. After keeping for three months it was still suitable for eulinarv requirements. The product did hot require refrigeration space and it took up only about onefifth of the room required for chilled or frozen carcases.