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Treatment systems for treating flowable food products using electrical pulses to inactivate microbes. Systems described include one or more stages having flow-through processors. The flow-through processors have first and second electrodes which are spaced across a treatment chamber in which an inte

Treatment systems for treating flowable food products using electrical pulses to inactivate microbes. Systems described include one or more stages having flow-through processors. The flow-through processors have first and second electrodes which are spaced across a treatment chamber in which an intense electrical field is generated using bipolar electrical pulses. The treatment chamber is temperature stabilized to improve processing and minimize surface buildup on the electrodes. Oversized processor electrodes can be used such as in conjunction with an electrode spacer to provide a treatment zone having a relatively uniform and high electrical field strength.

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[ The invention claimed is:] [1.] A processing system for treatment of a flowable food is product to reduce the microbial content thereof, comprising:a plurality of processors each having a first electrode and a second electrode; said first and second electrodes being spaced apart and defining there

[ The invention claimed is:] [1.] A processing system for treatment of a flowable food is product to reduce the microbial content thereof, comprising:a plurality of processors each having a first electrode and a second electrode; said first and second electrodes being spaced apart and defining therebetween a treatment chamber;an electrical pulse generator connected to the plurality of processors for generating electrical pulses which charge the first electrodes positively relative to the second electrodes during positive pulses and which charge the first electrodes negatively relative to the second electrodes during negative pulses; said pulse generator generating positive and negative pulses during treatment.