Solid Dairy Products Testing

With more products available on the market, having the functional testing methods in place is essential to guarantee customer demands are met. The functionality of a product - how it cuts, how it melts, how it feels in the mouth - dramatically influences the palatability, appearance, and ultimately, the sales of the product.

Beyond various chemical and textural analysis methods, viscometers provide producers with an intuitive and versatile technology to measure a wide range of functionality in their products, and to rapidly predict final product quality. PerkinElmer provides the dairy industry with advanced technologies to control quality, and deliver real-time intelligence to assist in product development, formulation, and optimization.

Dairy processors operate in a world of constantly changing raw material suppliers, thinning profit margins plus increasing safety regulations for the detection of antibiotics, hormones, natural toxins, and a variety of microbial and industrial contaminants.

Compounding these external factors, processors are challenged with quickly and accurately verifying the quality of inbound raw materials, and their own outbound finished products - while continually optimizing their processes to improve productivity and reduce costs.

Through reliable analytical solutions with global support and services, we have become a renowned and respected partner for dairy processors. Whether you need to monitor ingredient performance, tighten quality, optimize production processes, verify finished product quality or reduce time to market, our dairy solutions address the requirements of your fast-paced environment. And with adherence to leading industry standards: IDF, ISO, ICAR and AOAC.

Adulteration of dairy products is generally intentional to increase the profit margin. PerkinElmer offers a wide range of technologies and solutions that help to identify intentional ingredient substitution in dairy products:

• Adulterant screen software on our FT-IR and FT- NIR systems enables you to perform - in one minute or less - pass/ fail screening for adulterants, with no sample preparation and minimal scientific background required.
• Our milk powder analyzer applies advanced algorithms to screen for both known and unknown adulterants. It also performs the same fast nutritional parameter measurements routinely used for protein, moisture and fat.
• Our GC/MS solution measures melamine down to regulated limits as defined by multiple international regulatory bodies.

Pathogens may enter the dairy chain at different stages. There are several factors that influence their growth such as composition of the product (pH, moisture, water activity), curd cooking, failure in the pasteurization process, biochemical changes during aging, post-process contamination.

PerkinElmer is now able to provide fast, sensitive and cost effective pathogen detection assays for the detection of Listeria, Salmonella and E.Coli in milk.