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meat pad

meat pad noun: in plastic packaging, an absorbent pad placed underneath raw meat in order to absorb excess moisture and fluids (like blood) so as to prevent the buildup of harmful bacteria on the meat itself.

Noun

meat pad (plural meat pads)

  1. In plastic packaging, an absorbent pad placed underneath raw meat in order to absorb excess moisture and fluids (like blood) so as to prevent the buildup of harmful bacteria on the meat itself.
    • 37 violations, including blood dripping into box of meat pads, meat pad container with "old meat and blood residues on all surfaces," sour meat in meat case, "bug zapper" too close to equipment/processing tables, foreign produce not marked.1998 March 30, “Supermarket Inspections”, in Mike Hoyem, compiler, The News-Press, page 4A
    • Precisions' meat pads are used in tray-packed meat, poultry and fish packaging to absorb fluids.2003 January 28, “P&G license product”, in The Cincinnati Post, page 6C

Examples of meat pad in a sentence

  • Dri Fresh Resolve (Sirane Ltd.) is an absorbent meat pad with a breathable surface.2011, B. P. F. Day, L. Potter, “Active Packaging”, in Richard Coles, Mark J. Kirwan, editor, Food and Beverage Packaging Technology, 2...
  • Packtech products include the following: polyolefin woven sacks, flexible intermediate bulk container, leno bags, jute hessian sacks, tea bags (filter paper), soft luggage, absorbent meat pad, etc.2023, Nimisha Rana Chaudhary, Reema Varshney, Innovation and Recent Advancement In Fashion and Textile, HOW Academics, →ISBN, page 14:

Synonyms of meat pad

Forms of meat pad

pluralmeat pads

Origin of meat pad

From meat + pad.

Questions about meat pad

What does meat pad mean?
Meat pad means in plastic packaging, an absorbent pad placed underneath raw meat in order to absorb excess moisture and fluids (like blood) so as to prevent the buildup of harmful bacteria on the meat itself.
How do you use meat pad in a sentence?
Dri Fresh Resolve (Sirane Ltd.) is an absorbent meat pad with a breathable surface.
What part of speech is meat pad?
Meat pad is a noun.
What is the plural of meat pad?
The plural of meat pad is meat pads.

Words near meat pad in the dictionary

  1. meat off
  2. meat offering
  3. meat offerings
  4. meat on one's bones
  5. meat on the bones
  6. meat pad
  7. meat pads
  8. meat pie
  9. meat pies
  10. meat puppet
  11. meat puppets

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