Dairy processing: Aseptic processing and packaging systems
Introduction
The following provides recommended practices for aseptic processing and packaging of dairy products.
Aseptic processing and packaging is the filling of a commercially sterile product into a commercially sterile container followed by hermetic sealing in a commercially sterile atmosphere. For dairy applications, this process uses temperatures above the boiling point for a very short period of time to sterilize milk products. It is followed by the aseptic packaging step to give a shelf-stable commercially sterile product. The processing and filling steps have a number of variables that are controlled by design specification (the scheduled process).
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