Cooked Meat Packaging Gas Control & Testing
- High-precision testing equipment that maintains product freshness, safety, and visual appeal
- Accurate leak detection to minimise waste and reduce unsellable stock
- Next-generation gas mixers that ensure accurate MAP composition
- Precision gas flow optimiser engineered to minimise gas usage.
Gas Control Equipment For Cooked Meat Packaging
Providing advanced gas control systems and proven active packaging solutions for cooked meat packaging. Our next-generation gas mixers, gas analysers, leak testers, burst systems, and flow optimiser help ready-to-eat meat producers achieve precise and consistent modified atmosphere control across many packaging formats and product types.
We also offer a wide range of oxygen absorbers, moisture absorbers, CO2 absorbers, and CO2 generators that help maintain internal packaging conditions throughout storage and transport.
Packaging Quality Assurance For Ready-To-Eat Meat Manufacturers
Packaged ready-to-eat meats, including sliced deli cuts and pre-cooked products, are manufactured, sealed, and distributed globally, often travelling long distances before reaching consumers.
Moisture-rich items like pre-cooked chicken, roast beef, and pâté are highly perishable and subject to fast microbial spoilage. Drier deli meats, such as ham, turkey, and salami, have a longer shelf life but are still at risk of oxidation, loss of flavour, and texture changes.
Preserving taste, appearance, and safety during storage and distribution is essential to maintaining the commercial value of these sensitive products.
Producers rely on modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) to create a controlled atmosphere that limits oxygen exposure, manages moisture, and reduces bacterial growth.
Optimised packaging is especially important for premium or export ready-to-eat meats with short shelf lives and stricter handling and quality requirements, such as foie gras and pre-cooked turkey breast slices.
Gas Control In Ready-To-Eat Meat Packaging
Nitrogen is typically used in ready-to-eat meat packaging to displace oxygen, helping prevent oxidation, preserve flavour, and maintain texture.
Carbon dioxide is added in small to moderate amounts to slow microbial growth and extend shelf life.
Pre-cooked meats, such as ready-to-eat chicken, have a high moisture content and are more prone to spoilage. They typically require higher carbon dioxide concentrations (30-50%) to reduce bacterial growth and nitrogen (50-70%) to maintain package shape.
In contrast, sliced deli meats like ham, turkey, and salami are often packaged with a nitrogen-rich mix (70-80%) and 20–30% carbon dioxide to maintain freshness while keeping microbial activity in check.
Because excessive carbon dioxide can affect the taste or appearance of ready-to-eat meat, its levels must be carefully balanced.
Nitrogen and carbon dioxide are introduced through gas flushing or vacuum/gas cycles before sealing, creating a modified atmosphere tailored to the product’s moisture level, spoilage risk, and shelf life needs.
How EMCO Can Help
EMCO is a global provider of gas control technologies. Pre-cooked and ready-to-eat meat producers of all sizes rely on our next-generation equipment, which helps maintain product integrity, extend shelf life, and drive efficiency across large-scale operations.
We offer cutting-edge desktop instruments capable of precise gas composition, leak, and burst testing; gas mixers for fine-tuning MAP processes; water bath systems to identify leaks; and a gas flow optimiser designed to minimise gas use and improve production line performance.
Our active packaging tools range includes reliable and cost-effective oxygen absorbers, moisture absorbers, CO2 absorbers, and CO2 generators designed to extend product freshness.
QA teams in the ready-to-eat meat sector can implement structured testing workflows using our equipment to monitor gas levels, detect leaks, and verify packaging strength. The data collected by our instruments supports process optimisation, improves consistency, and reduces operational risk.
Large-scale producers can use our gas mixers and flow optimiser to cut gas consumption and speed up production.
Our active packaging tools can benefit pre-cooked meat manufacturers of all sizes by helping maintain the freshness and safety of prepared meat products.
Why Choose EMCO’s Gas Control Equipment For Cooked Meat Packaging
- Next-generation gas mixers and gas flow optimisers
- Precise testing for gas composition, seal integrity, and burst strength
- High-sensitivity leak detection capable of identifying leaks as small as 10 microns
- Quick, easy, and safe packaging test process
- Integrated data capture to support process optimisation and efficiency
- Supported by EMCO’s service level guarantee.
