TREND-SETTING MEAT TECHNOLOGY - Meat Cracks

TREND-SETTING MEAT
TECHNOLOGY

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Individual clients - Special solutions
The Mühlen based Meat Cracks
Technologie GmbH, Germany,
is specialised in the production
of customised spice mixes for
the food industry as well as
the production and sale of
additives, starter and protective
cultures for the meat and
sausage industry. To this must
be added the special solutions
that represent a genuine leap
forward and the new developments
influencing innovative
developments in the food
industry.
Starter and protective cultures:
Production of BioPrime starter and protective cultures in the state-of-the-art
Meat Cracks clean room
Spice mixes and additives:
Customised mixes of spices and additives for a distinctive taste and
technological success
HAMSTER-bag:
Multi-fi lm system packaging to improve quality and hygiene in raw
ham production
Convenience preparations:
For meat and poultry products
Antioxidants:
Specifi cally for use in sausage and meat products

Competent advice from experts
A team of professional experts with
extensive experience are available for
Meat Cracks clients. Consultation
focuses on the tangible aims and
requirements of given projects that
form the basis for the creation of
individual solution concepts. Hence,
clients are always assured optimised
products to specifi cally meet their
particular requirements.
The principle requirement applicable
to all processes is the highest quality
– from technology consultations right
up to the fi nal product. Clients can
always rest assured that they have
made the right choice by selecting
Meat Cracks.
Peter Terjung
Managing Director
Gregor Scheffer
Managing Director
As an owner-managed
company Meat Cracks Technologie
GmbH is always a fl exible and
dependable partner. Peter
Terjung and Gregor Scheffer are
the managing directors who are
responsible for the success of the
company. Both of them can look
back on many years of experience
in the production of meat and
sausage products. And this
knowledge is pooled in all their
operations to the benefi t of the
clients.
“We speak your
language”
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Future orientated
The development and
production of products for
the food industry in general,
but for the meat and sausage
industry in particular, requires
a wealth of know-how
combined with the utmost
production and product
safety.
Moreover, fl exibility and
creativity are a must, in
particular to meet the rising
challenge of customised
solutions.
This background formed the basis for
the company’s fi ve points programme
of basic principles. Accordingly, the
entire staff is committed to the
following:
Cooperation – Close cooperation
generates strength through unity
Communication – Talks create
confi dence
Sense of responsibility – Diligence
ensures highest quality standards
Innovation – Further development
opens up new perspectives
Results orientation - Effi ciency
for the highest possible customer
service
This culminates in the binding
targets for co-operation with all
market partners, namely:
Further development of
Meat Cracks as an ownermanaged
company
Intensifi ed cooperation with
clients, contractual partners and
suppliers
Extension of marketing on the
basis of independent specialist
consultants
Creative development of new
products, projects and concepts
Targeted investments in
personnel, technology and products

A powerful partner
Meat Cracks is always
focused on meeting the
individual requirements of
clients. The know-how of Meat
Cracks specialist consultants
offers tremendous benefi ts
for partnership-based cooperation,
namely competent
technological advice, creative
product development and
support in application
technology where the focal
point is structured by the
benefi ts for clients.
Developing ideas
for new products in the meat and
sausage segment from raw material
right through to serial production.
Conceptual
consultations based
on partnership
in the development and industrialised
production of meat and sausage
products, poultry and convenience
products at home and abroad.
Full service
involving advice, taste assessment,
sample production and optimisation
regarding raw materials and
auxiliaries.
Sales
Starter and protective cultures,
bio-fermentation products, additives,
spices and special blends in keeping
with the specifi c requirements of
clients.
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Verifi ed quality
Natural Meat Cracks
additives enhance many meat
and sausage products and
other foods. This results in a
deep sense of responsibility
and the commitment to
continuous quality assurance.
It also involves daily safety checks,
EDP supported production processes
and regular staff training as well as
constant stringent checks by outside
testing laboratories. The certifi cation
of the Meat Cracks quality
management system pursuant to
the International Food Standard (IFS)
requirements signifi cantly testifi es the
company’s quality orientation policy
ranging from the selection of raw
materials to production and the fi nal
products.

Safe production
Safety checks form an integral part
of the logical chain throughout all
stages of production. For example
this involves the following for
customised spice blends:
VIS-NIR spectral analysis:
For continuous monitoring of all
supplies of raw materials and blended
spice mixes.
Sieving and metal
detection:
Foreign substances are defi nitely
undesired. Hence, sieving of all raw
materials is required prior to the
blending process, followed by metal
detection.
EDP supported production:
The entire production processes is
EDP supported by bar codes, article
numbers, designations and batch
numbers.
Batch traceability:
Batch number, article number
and date of manufacture ensure
continuous traceability right up to
the identifi cation of each individual
raw material batch.
Final product control:
All products are subjected to a
stringent outgoings check prior
to delivery. Moreover, an outside
laboratory conducts additional
random sample tests.
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Superior sausages
thanks to starter and protective cultures
Clients are always on the safe
side with BioPrime starter
and protective cultures.
They are specifi cally used
in raw cured products to
ensure perfect fermentation
combined with outstanding
sensory properties as well as
complete product and
technological safety.
The Meat Cracks range includes
a multitude of different starter
and protective cultures for rapid
reddening transformation, greater
colour stability and signifi cantly
extended keeping qualities for
unfermented products. Moreover,
exceptionally rapid acidifi cation,
fi rmness and a mild aroma are
combined with quick drying of
salami and salami-like products.
Benefi ts at a glance:
Cured, pore-free sausages
Excellent gel formation
Appetizing colour
Superb taste
Optimised bite consistency
Shortened curing time
Signifi cant nitrate reduction
High catalysis activity
Homogenous fermentation
Targeted lactic acid formation
Use of mono-sugars
Reproducibility

Production in the company’s own clean room
All BioPrime starter and
protective cultures are produced
in the company’s own Class 10
clean room. The individual working
processes proceed in a laminar fl ow
cell to guarantee completely
germ-free production.
In addition to separate weighing,
mixing and fi lling areas, the Meat
Cracks clean room features its own
laboratory where special examinations
and tests are carried out, such as:
“Texture analysis”
Acid activity tests
Water content analysis
Microbiological analysis
Verifi cation by way of methods
plans
EDP supported production
Batch traceability
Final product control
Weight control with a check
weigher
Meat Cracks ensures the highest
possible level of product safety with
in-house clean-room production.
The benefi t for the clients: They can
always rely on the unchanging
quality of the BioPrime starter and
protective cultures.
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Spice mixes
Customised spice mixes
Meat Cracks offers all clients
a multitude of recipes for
spice mixes, and new ones
are constantly being added.
Individual blends can be
developed for all applications
and tastes.
Clients can rely on the
comprehensive range of
Meat Cracks services in the
production of specifi c spice
mixes.
Individual
composition of spice mixes
for all industrially produced
meat, poultry and
convenience products
A selection of raw
materials and auxiliaries
according to client-specifi c
criteria
An almost unlimited
choice of possible tastes
Sample batches can be
produced at the client for
testing purposes

Perfect mixing
Spice mixes can only optimally
develop their specifi c aroma if
they have been very uniformly
mixed. This is assured by the
Meat Cracks mixing machines
made of high-quality deepdrawn
VA steel.
As a result of a special mixing
technology these machines are
able to produce a holistic and
homogenous mix even with recipes
involving as little as 0.03 % spice
extract, spice oil or individual
preparations. The sieving system in
conjunction with a metal detector
guarantees that undesirable particles
are not incorporated in the mix.
All production steps are backed
by comprehensive safety checks
to ensure that the spice mixes are
accurately blended according to the
given recipe. A stringent
monitoring system is also in place
for computer-controlled product
fi lling in containers that are sized
according to specifi c requirements.
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Meat Cracks
Technologie GmbH
Rienshof 2
49439 Mühlen
Phone: +49(0)54 92/96 09-0
Fax: +49(0)54 92/96 09-29
E-Mail: info@meatcracks.de
Internet: www.meatcracks.de