food product shelf life - medallion labs：食品产品的货架寿命-章实验室.pdfVIP

Medallion Laboratories ANALYTICAL PROGRESS Food Product Shelf Life By Mark Sewald and Dr. Jon DeVries Why Study Shelf Life? Shelf-life studies can provide important information The modern food industry has developed and to product developers enabling them to ensure that the expanded because of its ability to deliver a wide consumer will see a high quality product for a significant variety of high quality food products to consumers period of time after production. Of course long shelf- on a nationwide and worldwide basis. This feat life studies do not fit with the speed requirement and has been accomplished by building stability into therefore accelerated studies have been developed as the products through processing, packaging, part of innovation. and additives that enable foods to remain fresh and wholesome throughout the distribution As the mechanisms of food deterioration became process. Consumer demands for convenience known to food scientists, methods of counteracting have fueled new innovations in the food product these losses in quality have been developed. The rate at development, packaging and chemical industries, which these reactions occur, the effects of temperature, and the widespread desire for products to use in the water, and the myriad of other parameters have become microwave oven has added further impetus to this characterized factors contributing to the science of