Dairy Tech new innovation by CFTRI to check milk freshness

CSIR is ready with a brand new technology that will help consumers to check the freshness of milk even before opening it.

About CSIR

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), was established by the Government of India in September 1942 as an autonomous body that has emerged as the largest research and development organization in India.

Since its inception, the CSIR has become the largest research and development organisation in India with over 38 laboratories/institutes, 39 outreach centers, 3 Innovation Centres and 5 units throughout the nation.

About the Technology

Checking the freshness of the milk before opening the packet is really a tough task to do, as a shelf life of 2 days is mentioned on the packet of the milk but even then many times milk is found to be spoiled after opening the package due to some reason.

At the Ongoing IDF World Dairy Summit 2022 at the Expo Centre in Greater Noida, Prof. Rajeshwar S. Matche Chief Scientist, and Head, of Food Packaging and Technology, CSIR-CFTRI, Mysuru said,

Ordinary people of India face this basic problem of buying a packet of milk which is spoilt, but can’t identify at the outlet itself. So, when the packet is opened at home for boiling the milk, only then they get to know of spoilage. They end up feeling cheated.

CSIR-CFTRI is constantly working with Nandini Dairy doing experiments that have given near about 100% success rate.

Time Temperature-based Spoilage Indicator Testing is to be utilized in this technology will cost 20-25 paise per packet of milk. the CSIR feels, will help us in implementing the technology at a mass scale.

Ms. Sridevi Annapurna Singh, Director, CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute, said

We are sensitive to both the issues of our Indian people and affordability of that solution. The food items that have been tested so far are used at mass scale, so we were sure about one thing from the beginning that the technology has to be affordable.

This technology has the potential to completely remove the manual sticking of labels on milk or other food item packet.

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