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Evaluation of milk quality in delivering sterilized milk with soft tank transportation system
C Tsukamoto1, Sa Rula, H Asano
1Dept of Biological Chemistry and Food Science, Food Safety Research Center, Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate Univ, 3-18-8, Ueda, Morioka, Iwate 020-8550, Japan. chigen@iwate-u.ac.jp
Abstract:
A new transportation system is proposed recently to improve the defects of liquid transportation by tank trucks. This method is called "soft tank transportation system"; a driver installs a sac-like container (soft tank), which is made from a tarpaulin with high-pressure resistant-waterproof zippers, in a general cargo vehicle. To evaluate the quality of sterilized milk by using the soft tank transportation system, ground and marine transportation for a long distance which took about 36 h from the shipper's loading to the receiver's unloading in a high-temperature summer season (average outside temperature was 33.4 degrees C) were carried out. Although the difference of milk temperature before and after the delivery varied from -0.7 to +1.4 degrees C, there was no difference in milk quality (fat, nonfat solids, total dissolved solids, and pH) and no coliform bacteria were detected. It can be evaluated that sterilized milk was carried in keeping good conditions by soft tank transportation system.
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