Canada may introduce preservative in RTE poultry

According to the American Meat Institute, the amended rules would allow the use of such preservatives in standardised and non-standardised preparations of meat, meat by-products, poultry meat, poultry meat by-products, prepared and preserved fish products at a maximum level of use of 0.25% of final product weight.

The Institute says that this would allow meat processors to re-formulate RTE products with a combination of lactate and diacetate as an antimicrobial aimed primarily at controlling the growth of Listeria monocytogenes. This combination of antimicrobials has been permitted in the US since 2000.