Tetra Pak Denies the Pasteurized Milk Rumor

The Tetra Pak Company answered a rumor launched by e-mail, according to which the pasteurized milk unsold during the shelf-life period is removed from the market, pasteurized a second time, packed and brought back in the stores.

The message also said that the pasteurization process can be repeated, the number on the back of the pack (2, 3, 4 or 5) indicating the number of pasteurizations. The electronic message is accompanied by a picture of a Tetra Pak UHT milk pack on which the number 1 is circled.
Tetra Pak states in a handout that “The rumor according to which the pasteurized milk would be reprocessed up to 5 times is wrong and started from a wrong interpretation of the numbers on the Tetra Pak packs.”

The packaging producer explains the signification of the number on the back of the pack, in the photo accompanying the message: “The pack in the photo is an aseptic pack (Tetra Brik Aseptic) for UHT milk (Ultra – High Temperature) and not for pasteurized milk like it is mentioned in the message launched on the Internet. That number (circled in the photo) refers to the number of the roller on which the packaging material was printed; the printing equipment in the Tetra Pak plant usually has 5 rollers.

The numbers (1,2,3,4 and 5) are printed in our plants, than the packaging material is delivered to the client. When the client reports a functionally defect, the roller on which the packaging material was printed must be identified in order to communicate it to the Tetra Pak plant and rectify it. A number is printed every second; that is why, some packs have the number written down on them, some don’t (the printing speed of the Tetra Pak equipment is higher than 1 pack/second).

Aside from the above mentioned information, we consider it childish to believe that a milk producer would print on the pack how many times the milk had been “recycled”.
Moreover, the food producer is not allowed to take back the expired products, because these are, according to law, the property of the store and it is its duty to discard them (they are handed to the sanitation service operator that the supermarket contracted to pick up the waste products).”

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