The Penny Wise Way For Retailers To Improve Food Safety and Reduce Shrink and Markdowns
UltraZapXtendaPak is a a revolutionary active absorbent pad designed to maintain the safety, appearance and marketability of store-packed meat and poultry. In addition to locking in excess purge, UltraZapXtendaPak maintains the product's organoleptic features: smell, color, and texture.
UltraZapXtendaPak minimizes the bacterial growth in store-packed meat and poultry, thus maintaining product appearance as the product ages inside the package. Because of this, consumers are more likely to purchase a store-packed meat product on the second, third and fourth day if the product looks, smells, and feels good.
Science That Works In-Store
The UltraZapXtendaPak active pad includes additives that produce carbon dioxide (CO2), an inert gas known to have bacteriostatic properties. Moisture from the store packed meat and poultry is absorbed by the UltraZapXtendaPak cellulose pad, which then produces a steady stream of CO2 gas inside the package.
CO2 gas "wraps" itself around the meat, creating an envelope that helps retard the growth of spoilage bacteria present on the surface of the meat.
Plus, a second anti-microbial ingredient reduces the bacteria growth inside the cellulose pad and in the purge. A reduction of bacterial growth slows the natural decay process of packaged meat and poultry, allowing the product to maintain better color, smell and feel on the second, third, and fourth day.
To receive an UltraZapXtendaPak product sample, contact our Vice-President, Sales & Marketing John Terrien directly via email at .
Even in a non-barrier package, the UltraZapXtendaPak pad combines the continuous generation of CO2 gas with reduced bacterial growth in the purge to produce a beneficial organoleptic effect - it helps meat and poultry reach the sell-by date with better color, smell and feel.
Measurable Benefits for Retailers
Grocery meat departments will realize immediate benefits by using UltraZapXtendaPak in-store:
- Fewer markdowns, rewraps, and throws will improve department margins and free up time to build sales
- Reduces product stockouts, leading to more sales
- Improves food safety in the meat department
- Reduces the risk of in-store cross contamination and related retailer liability
- Reduces any offensive odors
- Product will have less purge and look fresh longer
- Enables product to make it to the sell by date at full price
Recommended Applications
- Retail Grocery
"UltraZapXtendaPak has innovatively applied modern principles of active packaging to generate synergistic natural antimicrobial effects in pads that constitute an integral component of in-store packages to help retard adverse microbiological changes in fresh meat or poultry.
By incorporating the natural preservative effects of carbon dioxide into packaging, Paper Pak Industries is offering a remarkable breakthrough in fresh meat and poultry packaging for supermarket operators."
Dr. Aaron L. Brody
President and CEOPackaging/Brody, Inc.
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