CSIR will soon unveil a technology which will help a consumer in identifying spoilt milk without opening the packet of milk. Prof. Rajeshwar S. Matche, Chief Scientist at CSIR-CFTRI claimed this while speaking at the World Summit of IDF in Greater Noida.
Professor further said “Ordinary people of India face this basic problem of buying a packet of milk which is spoiled, but can’t identify it 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.”
A significant issue for organized dairy industry as well, CFTRI division of CSIR started working on this specific issue based on market feedback and has so far tested this label based on easy to use technology on milk, meat and Idli & Dosa batter.
The CSIR-CFTRI team has been closely working with Nandini Dairy for experiments with near to 100% success rate. While doing so, the supply of the same packet of milk both in morning and evening has been taken care of.
Tentatively called ‘Time Temperature based Spoilage Indicator Testing’, per packet costing of technology will be 20-25 paise which, the CSIR feels, will help us in implementing the technology at mass scale.