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(43) Date of publication: 23.07.1997 Bulletin 1997/30 (21) Application number: 95934734.0 (22) Date of filing: 25.10.1995

(51) International Patent Classification (IPC):  A23B 7/ 10( . ) A23L 1/ 217( . ) A23L 1/ 212( . ) (86) International application number: PCT/GB1995/002508 (87) International publication number: WO 1996/013171 (09.05.1996 Gazette 1996/21)

(84) Designated Contracting States: AT BE CH DE DK ES FR GB GR IE IT LI NL PT SE (30) Priority: 29.10.1994 GB 19940022033 10.05.1995 GB 19950009476 14.06.1995 GB 19950012036 (71) Applicant: RETEP FOODS LIMITED Huntingdon, Cambs PE18 0LD (GB)	(72) Inventor: HOWARD, Peter George Huntingdon-Cambs PE18 0LD (GB) (74) Representative: Archer, Philip Bruce  Urquhart-Dykes & Lord European Patent Attorneys New Priestgate House 57 Priestgate Peterborough Cambridgeshire PE1 1JX Peterborough Cambridgeshire PE1 1JX (GB)