Accelerated shelf life testing aslt kilcast and subramaniam 2000 can be incredibly useful when setting a shelf life for an ambient product as the developer does not need to wait for the whole of the product s shelf life to determine the end of shelf life.
Accelerated shelf life testing of foods.
Accelerated shelf life test real time assessment is usually time and resource consuming.
Food scientists store the samples in temperature controlled incubators and perform analyses over time.
The food industry has a great need to have a shelf life test in the minimum time possible because of the fierce competition sudden shortage of agricultural inputs opportunity loss and low unit value of the commodity.
For example storage at a higher temperature can result in a prediction in say half the time of the real shelf life although some methods claim to deliver the information in substantially less time.
The food industry has a great need to obtain in a relatively short time the necessary information.
Shelf life testing process overview client sends 6 individual containers of finished product to the laboratory.