It can also be applied to chemical reactions and many other systems. Break-angle data points converted into curves. If you use microbial parameters, in their webinar "Solving the shelf life study", which unfortunately isn't available as a recording, MXNS provided some general microbial criteria (text from slide copied below). 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I have not personally conducted any ASLTs but can offer some info. This completes the shelf life prediction for this collection of irradiated polypropylene tubes. Data Treatment. (The vertical scale is distorted for clarity.). The properties it can predict may be the brittleness of an injection-molded plastic part, the number of package seal failures, the color of the plastic, or the stability of an antithrombogenic device surface. Accelerated Shelf Life Testing - posted in Food Technology: Hi all, Merry Christmas to all..but i believe now is celebrating boxing day!! Number 8860726. The tests to be performed, correspondingly, could be a bending test, a ship test or dye penetration package test, a colorimeter test, or a radiation scintillation count of labeled blood platelets on an implanted or extracorporeal device. Figure 7. Q10 = Shelf-life at temperature T (°C) Shelf-life at (T (°C) + 10°C) Typically, a Q10 value of 2 is used as an initial shelf-life estimate, but this may not represent the actual acceleration factor of a specific food product. Microorganisms  must multiply to certain levels in order to be able to cause food spoilage. - From straight line, find (t 90%) at room temperature. 4. Therefore, the curves for these three break angles are the only complete ones. All rights reserved. With continued increase in temperature, performance decreases rapidly (Q10 of 0.2-0.8) up to a maximum temperature at which all biological function again ceases. The change in molecular weight will be well modeled by the Arrhenius equation. The value of Q10 is assumed to be extrapolatable, and it usually is. Accelerated Aging Factor is automatically calculated and provided here for reference 5. Because polypropylene is semicrystalline, it contains amorphous regions, which serve as canals for oxygen diffusion, as well as crystals, which impede oxygen penetration and free-radical oxidation. The same process is applied to the 40°C data (dropping the low 1-week point). microbial food spoilage.ppt   363.5KB It can also be applied to chemical reactions and many other systems. For this reason, it is the best possible prediction technique. The variable Q 10 method, comparing 60° and 25°C data. Some practitioners may find the math to be easier, as well. The difference between the 40°C point on the curved line and the 40°C point on the straight line constitutes a measurement of the curvature. Assume a general value for Q10 of 2.5. For most medical devices, however, accelerated aging data will yield curved rather than straight lines. Solid lines show aging time for samples in each of the three storage temperatures to reach break angles of 16, 15½, and 15 degrees. The derivation is quite involved mathematically. You currently have javascript disabled. The Q10 coefficient represents the degree of temperature dependence a muscle exhibits as measured by contraction rates. MD+DI Online is part of the Informa Markets Division of Informa PLC. Copyright © 2020. The Q10 method is not very accurate in practice. Thus, if tubes have acceptable ductility after 3.04 weeks at 60°C or 28.22 weeks at 40°C, then tubes aged 6 years at 25°C will also be acceptable. The Q10 method predicts that 6 years of aging at 25°C is equivalent to 34.2 weeks at 40°C. Decreasing muscle temperature results in a substantial decline of muscle performance such that a 10 degree Celsius temperature decrease results in at least a 50% decline in muscle performance. 2. Predictions of times to equivalent damage for samples stored at 25°, 40°, and 60°C. This damage can involve embrittlement (as in polypropylene), discoloration (as in polycarbonate), or additive blooming (as in polyvinyl chloride). Are changes in enzyme activities of fish muscle during cold acclimation significant?. It’s an interesting topic albeit highly complicated. Do you have any specific temperatures ranges that are readily available to you? Aging Factor. It uses all the information contained in the data (that is, values and curvatures). There's a ton of ways to be conservative, base shelf life on observed exponential growth rate, assume no deaths and set that as shelf life of the product when it hits those target values etc. Informa Markets, a trading division of Informa PLC. [4], Within vertebrates, different skeletal muscle activity has correspondingly different thermal dependencies. The converted data for time to equivalent damage (TED) for each temperature are listed in the inset box. Typically, a Q10 value of 2 is used as an initial shelf-life estimate, but this may not represent the actual acceleration factor of a specific food product. Typically, you will use side by side samples where you have a control at the normal temperature the product will be held and distributed against several other samples at varying temperatures. However, polypropylene is not a homogeneous material. Therefore, exposure of 3.8 weeks at 60°C is predicted to decrease break angle as much as would 5 years at 25°C. Thanks for your reply. There are many examples where the Q10 is used, one being the calculation of the nerve conduction velocity and another being calculating the contraction velocity of muscle fibres. LAB (lactic acid bacteria) have a way of making themselves known at much lower CFU. The dark reaction that eventually embrittles irradiated polypropylene is the degradation of peroxides that are formed by radiation-induced free-radical oxidation and the concomitant scissions to chains of lower molecular weight. The design of the molded part can also affect the rate of embrittlement at various temperatures. The logs of these numbers are 0.0755, 0.5378, and 1.0445 (see the table in Figure 2). For the 25°C data, the high 4-week and low 50-week points are disregarded. It can vary quite a bit depending on the make-up of the product.   74 downloads. The Q10 method is another well-known predictive technique. Now more than ever, developers of polymer-based medical products need ways to ensure a product shelf life of five or six years. Figure 3 is a cross-plot of Figure 2, showing how much aging time it took at each of the three temperatures for the break angle of the samples to drop to 16, 15½, and 15 degrees. Many polymers important to the medical device industry are damaged by the radiation required to sterilize them. Shelf-life estimation methods A-Garrett and Carper method : - Plot C ≠ t at 4 elevated temp.-From straight lines, calculate K values from slopes. Based on the OP, I deduce that no prior knowledge of this product/analogs/shelf-life measurements exist.   3 downloads, Nonetheless some foods (for hypothesised reasons) seem only classifiable as “exceptions”, eg this detailed shelf-life study (2001) -, shelf life of milk.pdf   201.43KB Dear Charles, Possibly for many RTE materials, well past the end life ? We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. By comparison, the D&A method predicted that 28.22 weeks at 40°C was equivalent to almost 6 years at 25°C. I have some trouble in setting up accelerated shelf life study for a snack food. (For this test, average break angles are the levels of damage, or LODs, referred to in the figures.). Merry Christmas to all..but i believe now is celebrating boxing day!! Manufacturers need to know how devices will perform throughout their required shelf lives, often as much as four to five years after irradiation. The last straight line can be expressed as the exponential decay shown in Figure 2: Break angle for 60°C = (weeks)–0.1811 x 101.2177 = (weeks)– 0.1811 x 16.51, The three continuous curves obtained allow us to calculate how many weeks it took at each temperature for the break angle to drop to 16 degrees and lower, at half-degree increments. I would only use those values if growth was 1st non-pathogenic, and 2nd didn't cause a sensory or other defect before hitting those values. The distance between this point and the straight line's intersection with the 40°C axis is 0.6026 minus 0.5378, or 0.0648. As others have stated you basically need to validate the accelerated shelf-life study against something. I have also known that it is important to identify the factor that could cause deterioration for my product. This obedience will be seen in a graph of the data. I have some trouble in setting up accelerated shelf life study for a snack food. Cross-plot of converted data from Figure 2. e.g., sharks, show less thermal dependence at lower temperatures than endothermic species [3][6], 7. The equations of the straight lines obtained are: Break angle for 25°C = (–1.71) x (log of weeks at 25°C) + 17.79, Break angle for 40°C = (–2.74) x (log of weeks at 40°C) + 17.47, Log break angle for 60°C = (–0.1811) x (log of weeks at 60°C) + 1.2177.