№ 2 (2014)

Principle stages of the foreign economic activity undertaken at exporting milk products group commodities to the foreign markets (the EC countries) are considered.

Advantages of the membrane processes applied for milk whey processing are shown.

Tightening-up of requirements to the food products safety in compliance with the documents of the Customs Union countries and of the Ukraine as well as terms given in the EU directives in the sphere of sanitarian requirements make producers of the equipment to pay more attention to application of the HACCP principles when designing and manufacturing machinery at the Kalinovskii Machine Building Plant (the Ukraine).

Items of supplying dairies with steam, constructing and up-grading of the steam boiler blocks using boilers of the company Viessmann are discussed

Recommendations are given how to choose cleaning compositions for heat exchanging equipment (pasteurizers, sterilizers, vacuum evaporating plants) used in the milk products manufacturing.

Structure of the automation system for water purification plants and function of its components are considered. Possibilities to include the system in the complete system of management are also discussed.

The method for determination of casein concentration in packed milk products with the plants using effects of the nucleus magnetic resonance is presented. Due to this noncontact method it is possible to detect falsification in liquid and concentrated milks and curds manufactured on the basis of adulterated skim milk powder containing dry milk whey. The method is based on the investigation of hydration of casein micelles that greatly affects stability of protein micelles in milk and structural-mechanical characteristics of protein coagulum formed at fermented milk products and cheese manufacturing and consistency of cheese.