DPC 10, Maintaining and Testing Fluid Milk Shelf Life

DPC-010

Published: 2004

Pages: 19

It is imperative that code dating be recognized as a quality index! The purpose of this guideline is to provide the dairy processor and other interested parties with recommendations for optimizing pasteurized product shelf-life, and presents an overview of factors that should be considered in performing shelf-life assessment procedures. Also included in the guideline are some methods that have shown promise in determining and predicting the shelf life of fluid milk.

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