PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide, in a factory storage after a work in a plant of dried young sardines, a sterilizer which is compact and capable of performing maintenance easily and which can be run at a low running cost.SOLUTION: A sterilizer for dried young sardines, characterized: in that enriched dried young sardines 91 are poured into a loading hopper 50 and in that the dried young sardines 91 are spread thinly on the surface of a mesh conveyor 40, so that the enriched young sardines 91 are exposed to heating steam 31 at a temperature 120°C to 160°C from a heating steam hood 32 disposed above the dried young sardines 91, or so that the enriched young sardines 91 are exposed to enriched salt water mist 61 from an enriched salt water mist hood 62 disposed above the enriched young sardines 91.COPYRIGHT: (C)2014,JPO&INPIT【課題】しらす干しプラントで加工後の工場保管において、コンパクトで保守整備が容易にでき、低ランニングコストで運用可能な滅菌装置を提供する。【解決手段】投入ホッパー50に増菌したしらす干し91を入れ、メッシュコンベア40の表面で薄くひろげ、当該増菌したしらす干し91の上方に備えた加熱蒸気用フード32から、120℃から160℃の温度の加熱蒸気31で、増菌したしらす干し91を被ばくさせ、または、増菌したしらす干し91の上方に備えた濃食塩水ミスト用フード62から、濃食塩水ミスト61を噴霧して、増菌したしらす干し91を被ばくさす構造のしらす干しの滅菌装置。【選択図】図2
