Method for calculating the lifetime of unit metal packages

✍ Scribed by Jan Kolek

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 138 KB
• Volume: 12
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-3214
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1522(199905/06)12:3<105::aid-pts458>3.0.co;2-6

✦ Synopsis

The technical characteristics of packages, determined by corresponding standards and technical requirements, are veri®ed by package reliability. The reliability of a package is de®ned as an ability to protect the quality of the product in a package to a suitable level, in a de®nite condition, under the in¯uence of various factors and for a de®nite time interval. The best index of the reliability of food packages is the maximal time from packing to the consumption of a product when the conditions of preservation and storage as well as the preparation of food for consumption are taken into account. Any change in the parameters characterizing a product/package/environment system can affect this time; thus, results of the investigation on randomly chosen samples and the analysis of these results can be taken as a basis for the estimation of the technical characteristics of packages.