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Chairmans Foods: HPP is more affordable than you think

HPP allows Chairmans Foods to cost-effectively broaden its product range and offer safer foods.

One of the biggest ways to impact the logistics side of HPP is to streamline the packaging, according to Chairmans Foods President Chris Staudt. Photo courtesy of Universal Pure.
One of the biggest ways to impact the logistics side of HPP is to streamline the packaging, according to Chairmans Foods President Chris Staudt. Photo courtesy of Universal Pure.

Nashville, Tennessee-based Chairmans Foods is not a new player in the high pressure processing (HPP) market, but honing its years of HPP expertise has allowed the company to greatly broaden its product range and offer safer foods. “As we grew, and our knowledge of what HPP did, [it] opened up several different types of products and different types of dynamics within those products,” says Chris Staudt, president of Chairmans Foods. While HPP allowed the processor to do many things it could not do in the past, shelf-life extension was a main goal for its initial chicken and casserole products. “It was a way for us to have a process lethality step for fresh products,” Staudt explains. 

Staudt says most people find the cost of HPP to be a barrier. “The cost of HPP is mitigated by not having to use certain other ingredients and materials in a formula to extend shelf life or preserve a product.” 

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