Novel Method for Testing the Grease Resistance of Plastic-Based Dry Pet Food Packaging, 2002 PLACE Conference Proceedings
For dry pet food packaging, one of the main requirements is a high resistance against staining from or migration of
the fat contained in the product. For both development and quality control, rapid and reliable standardised test
procedures assessing this property are needed. Although a number of tests are available, they either apply only to
certain types of packaging materials and show limited correlation with field behaviour, or employ non-standard
testing substances, long testing times and complicated equipment. In response to this situation, a series of testing
procedures that reflects field behaviour but without the draw-backs of the existing tests has been developed by
Nestlé. The new tests show high reproducibility and good correlation with field performance for a wide range of
multi-wall paper-based bags, folding boxes and multilayer polymer based materials.
Novel Method for Testing the Grease Resistance of Plastic-Based Dry Pet Food Packaging, 2002 PLACE C