Cooked concentrated milk with sugar: quality, safety, falsification

In 2016 the workers of the All-Russian Dairy Research Institute (VNIMI) have developed new intergovernmental standard GOST-33921 -2016 «Canned milk products. Concentrated milk with sugar, cooked. Technical regulation» on the base of actualization of the GOST R 54540-2011 valid on the territory of the RF. Terms and definitions, classification, organoleptic and physical-chemical indices, requirements to transportation and storage of the product have been left without changes. Introduction of new amendments is explained for the first, by organization of the Customs Union and joining the United economic territory and, as a result adoption of some technical regulations related with food products and, for the second by development of new methods for detection of falsified milk products. The new standard was amended with requirements ensuring production of safe and high quality product and helping to detect falsification of the product. In particular, for the first time identification of the fat phase has been included that must contain only milk fat of cow milk. The standard also includes data about fatty acids composition of the fat phase of the cooked concentrated milk with sugar. Additionally in the new standard the method to determined mass share of saccharose by the HPLC was added and the method to detect preservatives in case of their non-substantiated application. Besides, the sections «Requirements to the raw materials» and «Methods of control» have been considerably changed. In the sections «Labeling» and «Packaging» some commonly used today definitions have been corrected. The section «The rules of reception» is given in a new version that contains stages of the product control when trials of receipt and delivering and periodic trials are carried out.

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