All three treatments were then hung on a smokehouse truck and cooked in a single truck thermal processing oven. The final internal temperature of the product was 70 °C using a conventional ham cooking schedule. After thermal processing, the cooked hams were chilled for 18 h at 0–2 °C. Cooked, chilled product yields were measured by first recording raw product weights prior to cooking, and
by reweighing products after chilling. The hams were sliced after
chilling to a thickness of 6 mm. The slices were placed in barrier bags
with four slices per bag and vacuum packaged. The vacuum packaged ham
slices were then stored on shelves under 7.0 lx of Deluxe Cool White
florescent lighting (constant lighting for 24 h per day) at 2–4 °C.
Lights were suspended 61 cm above the packages during storage.