Method in hot filling of foods in a packaging container, as well as an apparatus therefor

摘要

A method involving the hot fill of foods in packaging containers constructed from a paperboard laminate comprises the food being filled in the packaging container with at least one component at a temperature of at least 80° C., but below 100° C., whereafter the packaging containers are closed and sealed and the packaging containers with their food contents are thereafter held hot during a predetermined period of time by contact with a heat holding medium at a temperature of at least 80° C., but below 100° C. The heat holding medium is present substantially in gas and/or vapour phase. An apparatus involving the hot fill of foods Information Disclosure Statement also disclosed.