It sounds simple enough: Remove environmental toxins and simultaneously deodorize edible oils without requiring short-path distillation and its associated significant product loss. Artisan Industries has developed an innovative and simple solution to this problem and been awarded a U.S. patent (No. 10,472,589) for removing toxins from edible fats and oils. The invention relates to industrial-scale food processing by what’s called thin-film stripping.
“This novel patented proprietary technology’s main advantages, for both short-path distillation and thin-film evaporation for physical de-acidification of edible oils, are lower operating temperatures and shorter processing times, enabling treatment of heat-sensitive oils without degradation,” says Perry Alasti, Artisan senior vice president and chief technology officer.