Download SKIMMED MILK POWDER (SMP) SPECIFICATION CHEMICAL AND

SKIMMED MILK POWDER (SMP)
SPECIFICATION
CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL
FAT CONTENT, %
MOISTURE CONTENT, %
MILK PROTEIN, %
LACTOSE, %
ACIDITY (AS LACTIC ACID), %
SOLUBILITY INDEX (AS RAW RESIDUE),
M3
SCORCHED PARTICLES, N
ASH, %
MICROBIOLOGICAL
MESOFILOS AEROBES (10/4), %
MOULDS (10/3), %
TOTAL COLIFORMS, NMP/G
SPORES THERMOPHILES (10/3)
SALMONELLA IN 25G
ANTIBIOTICS
LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES IN 25G
1,5
4,0
34
50
0,15
MAX
MAX
MIN
MIN
MAX
0,1
-15,0
7,5
MAX
MAX
MAX
1,0
1,0
7,0
1,0
ABSENT
ABSENT
ABSENT
MAX
MAX
MAX
MAX
Powdered milk is frequently used in the manufacture of infant formula, confectionery such as chocolate and
caramel candy, and in recipes for baked goods where adding liquid milk would render the product too thin.
Powdered milk is also widely used in various sweets such as the famous Indian milk balls known as Rasa - Gulla
and popular Pakistani sweet delicacy (sprinkled with desiccated coconut) known as Chum chum (made with skim
milk powder).
Milk powders contain all twenty standard amino acids (the building blocks of proteins) and are high in soluble
vitamins and minerals. According to USAID the typical average amounts of major nutrients in the unreconstituted
milk are (by weight) 36% protein, 52% carbohydrates (predominantly lactose), calcium 1.3% and potassium 1.8%.
Their milk powder is fortified with Vitamin A and D, 3000IU and 600IU respectively per 100g. Inappropriate
storage conditions (high relative humidity and high ambient temperature) can significantly degrade the nutritive
value of milk powder. Commercial milk powders are reported to contain oxysterols (oxidized cholesterol)[9] in
higher amounts than in fresh milk (up to 30μg/g, versus trace amounts in fresh milk)[10]. The oxysterol free radicals
have been suspected of being initiators of atherosclerotic plaques. For comparison, powdered eggs contain even
more oxysterols, up to 200μg/g.