May 18 - 21, 2009

Focus on the Present - Planning for the future

The Aseptic Processing and Packaging Workshop is targeted at food processing and food development professionals. Past participatants in this workshop include professionals representing: food science and technology functions; departmental and divisional managers for production/research and development/quality assurance; and packaging/processing/production engineers.

The Aseptic Workshop at Purdue University incorporates a lecture and hands-on laboratory format to review the essential scientific and engineering principles relevant to applying the aseptic technology. The hands-on activities include simulated process demonstrations, packaging integrity tests, testing methods in chemistry and microbiology, and displays of equipment components used in aseptic processing. The topics presented are an overview of aseptic processing and packaging, microbial principles applied to aseptic processing, chemical considerations, principles of thermal processing and thermobacteriology, equipment features, packaging considerations and assessment the package's sealing integrity, and determination of a quality assurance program for a review of compliance issues relative to commissioning an aseptic system.

Aseptic workshop brochure
Online registration