MRE (Meal-Ready-to-Eat) Package Quality Control

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MRE (Meal-Ready-to-Eat) is an important field of food research. Owing to its specialty, there are more strict requirements for MRE processing, nutrition and packaging. MRE requires long-term safe and clean storage as well as good packaging seal performance. Those characteristics determine the strict packaging requirements for MRE. As to the quality control and testing items, Labthink Instruments Co. Ltd. (www.labthink.cn) introduces as follows:

MRE Package Friction

Friction in MRE packaging process is both a driving force and resistant force, and it should be restricted within a certain scope. The roll material for automatic packaging requires little inner friction coefficient and proper outer friction coefficient. High outer friction coefficient would cause great resistance during packaging and material deformation. Insufficient friction would lead to skidding of drag system with inaccurate trace of electronic eye and inaccurate cut position. However, the inner friction coefficient sometimes should not be too low, some packaging machine would occur unstable piling and wrong siding. Therefore, the testing for coefficient of friction is of great importance. Labthink PARAM MXD-02 Coefficient of Friction Tester works according to international standards. Besides, temperature has great influence on coefficient of friction. Therefore, coefficient of friction at normal temperature and ambient temperature should both be tested. As to testing of coefficient of friction at specially required temperatures, Labthink PARAM FPT-F1 Friction/Peel Tester is available.

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