Packaging of Dairy Whitener

For bulk packing, dairy whitener may be packed similar to whole milk powder and for retail packing, dairy whitener may be packed similar to infant foods.

As per BIS standards (IS 12299 : 1998), for bulk packaging, the product may be packed in quantities of 25 kg in bags of food grade polyethylene of minimum thickness 0.05 mm. The bags should be properly closed by tying with a string or a rubber band and shall be subsequently encased in sacks or multi-walled kraft paper, such as crepe kraft paper bags of not less than 80 g/m2 grade lined with Hessian cloth having a mass of 270 g / m2 and having two inner layers of plain kraft paper of not less than 80 g/m2 grade.

For retail packing, BIS standards (IS 12299 : 1998) specify that the product shall be packed in nitrogen or in a mixture of nitrogen and carbon dioxide. The product shall be packed in clean and sound metal containers or in a food grade flexible pack made from a film or combination of any of the substrate made of board, paper,polyethylene, polyester metallized film or aluminium foil in such a way so as to protect it from deterioration. In the case of the plastic material, only food grade plastic shall be used.