{"id":778,"date":"2004-03-01T10:29:20","date_gmt":"2004-03-01T18:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/?p=778"},"modified":"2017-09-05T10:57:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T17:57:26","slug":"microwave-sterilization-kills-bacteria-while-retaining-high-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/2004\/03\/01\/microwave-sterilization-kills-bacteria-while-retaining-high-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"Microwave sterilization kills bacteria while retaining high quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>THE WARROIR &#8211; Natick Newsletter <\/em>\u00a0| \u00a0March-April 2004<\/p>\n<p>Microwave energy, long used in homes to cook or reheat food, is gaining momentum in the United States as a method for processing more palatable shelf-stable foods for the military and commercial market.<a name=\"a4\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already successfully used overseas as an alternative to frozen or refrigerated packaged foods, a partnership between the Department of Defense Combat Feeding Directorate at the Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Mass.; Washington State University (WSU) in Pullman, Wash.; and several food processing, equipment and packaging companies to process food through a microwave sterilization system is moving ahead with a fresh influx of federal and private sector funding.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.natick.army.mil\/about\/pao\/pubs\/warrior\/04\/marapr\/index.htm#a4\" target=\"_blank\">[continue reading]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.natick.army.mil\/about\/pao\/pubs\/warrior\/04\/marapr\/index.htm#a4\" target=\"_blank\">Microwave sterilization kills bacteria while retaining high quality<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>THE WARROIR &#8211; Natick Newsletter <\/em>\u00a0| \u00a0March-April 2004<\/p>\n<p>Microwave energy, long used in homes to cook or reheat food, is gaining momentum in the United States as a method for processing more palatable shelf-stable foods for the military and commercial market.<a name=\"a4\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already successfully used overseas as an alternative to frozen or refrigerated packaged foods, a partnership between the Department of Defense Combat Feeding Directorate at the Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Mass.; Washington State University (WSU) in Pullman, Wash.; and several food processing, equipment and packaging companies to process food through a microwave sterilization system is moving ahead with a fresh influx of federal &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/2004\/03\/01\/microwave-sterilization-kills-bacteria-while-retaining-high-quality\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-default\">&raquo; More &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2870,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[415,430],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2870"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}