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Record W4392859196 · doi:10.3389/frsfm.2024.1356641

Advancement in automation of co-extrusion collagen casings

2024· article· en· W4392859196 on OpenAlexaff
Shai Barbut

Bibliographic record

VenueFrontiers in Soft Matter · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMaterials Science
TopicCollagen: Extraction and Characterization
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Guelph
Fundersnot available
KeywordsExtrusionAutomationMaterials scienceManufacturing engineeringChemistryEngineeringMechanical engineeringMetallurgy

Abstract

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Co extrusion sausage technology has been a game changer in the industry as it has transformed the traditional way of filling meat betters into premade casings (e.g., synthetic materials such as cellulose or natural casings) to producing the casings on top of the meat batter as it comes out of the stuffer. This allows full automation of the process (working 24/7) with lower waste, while also increasing food safety standards. The main material used is collagen which today is extracted from a limited type of beef hides. It is then treated with a strong alkaline solution, to breakdown some of the original structures, and later with a strong acid to allow swelling of the resulting suspension. The application of the collagen gel requires special equipment to line up the collagen fibers in such a way that they provide the strength and elasticity during the cooking operation (meat expends during cooking) and later provide the consumer with the characteristics bit/“snap” similar to natural casings. Understanding the interactions between the chemical and physical properties of collagen is essential in obtaining good results. During production it is important that the collagen is quickly dried and crosslinked so the shape of the product will not be modified. This requires special large horizontal dryers and a unit to apply liquid smoke (source of aldehydes for crosslinking). Currently most systems are built for large capacity production, and therefore require large investment, however the industry is working on developing smaller and more flexible units for future use.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.586
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.257
Teacher spread0.250 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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