Versaperm launches packaging permeability tester

Versaperm has introduced an instrument that can test the packaging material and finished packaging of food products to insure against leaks and sealing problems.

Food packaging materials are critically dependant on the specific contents they need to preserve.

Many foods simply do not use the best material.

As a result packaging allows too much or too little oxygen or carbon dioxide to escape, leading to oxygen concentrations that cause stress, taints and fermented 'off' flavours.

All of these directly reduce shelf life and some lead to health hazards.

Conventional gravimetric measurements of packaging permeability takes days or weeks, but the Versaperm equipment gives faster results, sometimes in as little as 30 minutes.

The measurements are also more repeatable and accurate (usually in the parts per million range), as well as being far less prone to sealing problems.

The Versaperm system offers an automated computerised control to cope with several samples at a time.

It can test both the packaging material and the finished package.

Versaperm also offers a permeability laboratory testing service - usually with a 24 hour turnaround.

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