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experiments at Virginia Tech’s food science and technology department show that mold growth on country cured hams, bacon, and shoulders can be delayed by the chemical potassium sorbatfe.

Sorbate is a preservative classified GRAS (generally recognized as safe) by the Food and Drug Administration. It is currently used in beverages, baked goods, chocolate syrup, cakes, cheese, margarine, and many other products. Sorbate has also been approved for external use on dry sausage and fish.

In the sorbate research, which was directed by assistant professors J. David Baldock and Paul P. Graham, they applied a one

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