Pet Food Package Leak Testing
What Do You Need to Know?
Human has increasingly adopted animals as their companion. The most common animals adopted being dogs, cats and birds. Countries have put strict regulation that pets should be treated equally to ensure that they receive appropriate care during their lifetime. This trend has fueled the growth of pet food and pet supplement manufacturers to satisfy the increasing demand.
Pet food products have to be treated in a same way as how we treat our own food. Therefore, they have to contain healthy nutrients and have to be properly packaged to seal them against external and foreign contamination. Similar to our foods, contaminating agents such as air or oxygen may promote the decomposition of the products inside the packages. Therefore, products with compromised seal integrity may not be safe for the consumption as the quality of the products have been compromised.
Ensuring the seal integrity of packages is crucial for the food manufacturing industries. At Sealtick, we design and supply robust and reliable package seal integrity tester for the food and pharmaceutical industry.
Our TSE6081b Flexible Package Integrity Tester comes with trolley-based design and is ideally used for testing leaks in large flexible packaging. Therefore, any types of pet food products with size up to 600 x 500mm can be tested in this mobile machine. The tests are non-destructive which means the packages are not stressed and will not be damaged during the test procedure.
In any leak testing applications, the best results are achieved if the volume of air around the packages during the test is minimized. To cater for this, Sealtick developed TSE6086b and TSE6089L for testing packaging from small sizes to large, heavy packages up to 20kg, respectively. Sealtick also supply customised leak testers for testing can food packaging, which are also popularly used for cat food and dog food products. The cylindrical chamber is specifically designed and made depending on the can size to minimize the volume of air in the chamber.
For any packages that fail the above tests, manufacturers are also interested to find the exact leak locations so that they can make necessary adjustment to the problematic machine. In this case, they can use the TSE2032 Water Bath Integrity Tester which detects leaks by observing the stream of bubbles rising from the exact leak locations.
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To ensure that your products have the maximum shelf life, they should be tested with the reliable package integrity testers before getting shipped to the customers. Our specially designed packaging leak testers are what you need to ensure your products meet high-quality standards during every step of the production process including package development, machine setup and product assembly line operation.
Call us today to know more about the right package integrity tester for your leak testing requirements.