Milk Products Packaging Testing Instruments

Fluid milk is used as a highly perishable product packaged in glass bottles to a more stable commodity transported and distributed over wide geographic areas. Milk is packaged in different materials in having various shapes and sizes. The right packaging of milk is the most important not only to preserve its nutritive value and saving of wastage but also to enhance the marketability to achieve better returns. The challenge to the packaging industry is to give nutritious milk to the consumer in most economical, hygienic, safe, and environmentally friendly package. Because of the shelf-life requirements of UHT kinds of milk, multiple laminates, for example, a triple layer of high-density poly-ethene is used.

Oxygen might penetrate the milk packages during storage is not a problem. Whatever the source of bottles, aseptic techniques are used in filling and sealing to prevent contamination, and milk can be expected to have a shelf-life of 6 months at ambient temperatures. Therefore, manufacturers must test the quality of milk packages from time to time. Milk Products Packaging Testing Instruments is the best testing instrument to test the quality of packaging.