Quality Control for Modified Atmosphere Packages (MAP) 

PBI-Dansensor excels in quality control solutions to the food industry. To ensure the headspace quality in food packages, beverage bottles or pharmaceutical products, PBI-Dansensor has three different solutions. Two of these are handheld, easy to use and meeting the basic requirement for residual oxygen measurement. The last solution offers easy traceability and documentation.

 

Workflow perfection

Easy to use, portable and reliable – that is the CheckPoint, PBI-Dansensor’s handheld headspace analyser, at an affordable price. Ideal for smaller production runs, or if you’re just getting started with gas flushing.

The CheckPoint II is the latest addition to PBI-Dansensor’s program, an easy way of storing all important data of the MAP production centrally – a portable quality control instrument.

 

Traceability with ease

Larger production facilities and customers with a demand for high accuracy quality control have different needs. These needs can be met with the CheckMate 3. Providing all necessary documentation and traceability of products packed in modified atmosphere, as well as the possibility of setting up a complete workflow for headspace testing of packages, bottles and pharmaceuticals. The bar code option makes it easy to collect almost any vital data, such as batch number, package type, packaging line and even operator name.

 

Oxygen measurement in high carbon dioxide concentrations – a recommendation

All PBI-Dansensor’s headspace analysers, CheckPoint, CheckPoint II and CheckMate 3, have the option to test CO₂ as well as O₂, giving the opportunity to ensure the correct gas mix in the package. However, in instruments using an electrochemical oxygen sensor (like the CheckPoint), carbon dioxide can have an affect on the oxygen content measurement. For this reason PBI-Dansensor always recommends a CheckPoint O₂/CO₂ in applications with a CO₂ content of 25-65%, as the CheckPoint O₂/CO₂ is able to compensate for the CO₂ content – this gives a more accurate oxygen reading. And to PBI-Dansensor’s knowledge, this feature is not available in any other portable instrument on the market. In applications with a CO₂ content higher than 65% and where a high accuracy oxygen concentration is still needed PBI-Dansensor’s suggestion is to consider the CheckMate 3 with zirconia sensor as this sensor technology is not affected by the carbon dioxide content.