Lactoferrin will be used in the meat industry as a food safety measure. This
is from patent # 6172040 called "Immobilized lactoferrin antimicrobial agents
and the use thereof." Bet this is worth mega bucks. Read an interview with
Bob Honse from Farmland [http://www.farmland.com/BobInterview.html ]which
mentions using lactoferrin as a food safety meansure [do not know if this
patent is related to the lactoferrin discoveries he talks about].
He states that the with funding from Farmland National Beef
the discovery was made at California Polytechnic University.
Valerie W. McClain, IBCLC
from the patent:
"The present invention relates to a method for treating products with a
sufficient amount of lactofeltin to reduce microbial contamination and the
immobilized lactofenrin used in the process. More particularly, the present
invention relates to immobilized lactofeltin and mixtures of immobilized
lactofenrin and native lactoferrin having increased antimicrobial activity
against a wide variety of bacteria and other food spoilage as well as
increased stability for use in various stages of food processing, and a
method for treating foods, and particularly meats, such as beef, pork and
poultry products. The method is of use in preventing microbial contamination
by a wide variety of microbes including enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli,
enteropathogenic Escherichia coli, Shigella dysenteriae, Shigella flexneri,
Salmonella typhimurium, Salmonella abony, Salmonella dublin, Salmonella
hartford, Salimonella kentucky, Salmonella panama, Salmonella pullorum,
Salmonella restock, Salmonella thompson, Salmonella virschow, Campylobacter
jejuni, Aeromonas hydrophila, Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus hyicus,
Staphylococcuis epidermidis, Staphylococcus hominis, Staphylococcus warneri,
Staphylococcus xylosus, Staphylococcus chromogenes, Bacillus cereus, Bacillus
subtilis, Candida albicans, and such radiation-resistant bacteria as:
Brochothrix thermospacta, Bacillus pumilus, Enterococcus faecium, Deinococcus
radiopugnans, Deinococcus radiodurans, Deinobacter grandis, Acinetobacter
radioresistens, Methylobacterium radiotolerans. It is of particular use in
preventing microbial contamination by verotoxic Escharichia coli, including
serotype O157:H7. "
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