Requirements to milk powder intended for baby foods manufacturing

Brief review of the situation in the baby foods manufacturing in the RF is made, and application of high quality and safe raw milk components including milk powder is substantiated. The new intergovernmental standard GOST 34255-2017 «Canned milk products. Milk powder for baby foods manufacturing. Technical Regulation» was developed in 2017. The standard contains requirements to three types of products: skim, partially skim and whole milk powders. Principle issues of the standard are given and organoleptic and physical-chemical indices. Differences in the requirements to the safety of «usual» milk powder and the powder applied as a raw milk material for baby foods manufacturing are shown. An accent has been made on the physical-chemical index «class of the heat treatment» added to the standard and special points, allowing detect falsification of the fat and protein parts of the product and application of the preservatives forbidden for baby foods. Fatty-acids composition of the fat phase of the product is given that must contain only milk fat received from cow milk. Requirements to the raw milk intended for dry milk production that further will be used in the recipes for baby foods preparation are outlined.

baby foods, canned milk products, dry milk, intergovernmental standard, quality and safety