food packaging

INTRODUCTION

During the snack food packaging laboratory class, there are eight products being tested. The products include Fanta Strawberry Drink, Drinho Mango Juice, Julie’s Biscuits Cheese Sandwich, Hwa Tai Luxury Cream Vegetable Cracker (Cheese), Double Decker Mini Chicken Cracker, Ku Tam Tam Crab Flavoured Snack, Ligo California Golden Seedless Raisin and “Kacang Tumbuk”. In order to carry out unbiased comparative testing, the criteria are the same for each product groups. We group products based on their structures and intended use. For instance, Fanta Strawberry Drink and Drinho Mango Juice are both beverages intended for human consumption, thus it is easier for us to make comparison between these two products instead of making a comparison between a drink and a pack of biscuit.

There are several equipments being used to test the products such as vernier caliper, micrometer screw gauge, cylinder, electronic balance and thermometer. Vernier caliper has been used to measure the length, width and height of the products together with their packaging while micrometer screw gauge is used to measure the thickness of the packaging materials. Moreover, cylinder has been used to measure the volume of the drinks (Fanta Strawberry Drink and Drinho Mango Juice) while the electronic balance is used to measure the weight of all the eight products. Volume and weight are being measured to determine whether the actual volume and weight are the same as being indicated on the label. In addition, thermometer has been used to measure the temperature of the drinks.

All in all, with the purpose of achieving fair testing, we conducted the tests under strict guideline to ensure that everyone is the same. Strict guideline here refers to the mini...

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...Malaysia, in case of imported food may be in Bahasa Malaysia or English or translation thereof in any other language. Particulars in labeling includes appropriate designation of food that contains the common name of its principle ingredients and in the case where the food is being mixed, it should be stated there ‘mixed and blended food’. Moreover, food that contains beef or pork or alcohol or permitted food additives, should mark there “CONTAINS ALCOHOL” for example.

Proportion by weight of food consists of two or more ingredients must be stated too so as the net weight or volume of the content of the package, name and business address of manufacturer and expiry date of the food. All the particulars required above must meet the form and manner of labeling where they will be printed in specified size of lettering and shall legible and durably marked on the package.