The Clarifying Reagent, or how to make the analysis of milk and dairy products easier.

Difficulties with the analysis of opaque milk and dairy products can be resolved by rendering the sample transparent. This allows direct photometric measurements of the reaction mixtures, and all sample pre-treatment steps become unnecessary. For this, several reagents have been reported in literature.

[Effect of treatment technologies on the nitrate and nitrite content of milk].

The nitrate contents of some evaporated milks or dry skim milks are sometimes abnormally high. Industrial thermal processings increase the amount of nitrates like. After flash pasteurization the level is two fold higher, after pasteurization and sterilization, the level is four hold higher.