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Strengthening Hot Dog Wrappers

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Paula M. Powell, Senior Editor

Stuff assorted meat products, salt, potassium lactate, flavoring, hydrologized beef stock, sodium phosphate and sodium nitrite into a casing of ambiguous origin, and you have a preservative-laden hot dog that could probably last for years. Nevertheless, vendors still want to protect that dog with wrappers that also withstand the elements. Now they have a little more test and analysis help from fast IR imaging. According to scientists at Digilab Inc., the process, which extends the capabilities of the IR microscope, can collect a 600-μm2 image in 20 seconds, using a focal plane array...Read full article

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    Published: October 2002
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