Consumers may soon be able to go for longer between milk-buying trips. That's because Brazilian company Agrindus hopes to start marketing plastic milk bottles that use embedded silver nanoparticles to kill bacteria. Grade A pasteurized fresh whole milk packaged in those bottles can reportedly last for up to 15 days, as opposed to the usual seven.
The technology was developed by partner company Nanox, and involves first coating silica ceramic particles with silver nanoparticles. This reportedly has a synergistic effect, with the silica boosting the antimicrobial properties of the silver.
Those coated particles take the form of a powder that is subsequently mixed into liquid polyethylene. Using blow- or injection-molding, that plastic is then made into bottles which Agrindus plans to sell to dairy goods companies. The particles can also be used to make milk bags, which should extend shelf life from four to 10 days.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by sudo rm -rf on Thursday August 06 2015, @10:54AM
Good plan, basically, but keep in mind that it would not affect vampires but werewolves instead.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 06 2015, @12:45PM
Depends on what mythology the vampire hails from.
(Score: 4, Funny) by The Archon V2.0 on Thursday August 06 2015, @02:32PM
Oh, great! I've got a house on an island in the middle of a river. I have garlic, hawthorn, pineapples, AND screwpine growing all over the place. I have so many holy symbols painted on the building it looks like graffiti and after I added the Buddhist ones people thought I was a Nazi. And don't get me started on the police complaints after I started leaving emergency stakes and machetes around the property, especially since I have to keep polishing the machetes to a mirror finish.
Now you're saying I ALSO have to drink silver if I want to keep vampires away. I'll start to look like a smurf, do you realize how DUMB that will look?
(Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Thursday August 06 2015, @03:36PM
It will be even dumber if the Vampire who finally gets you is the sparkly kind.
Worst afterlife ever...
(Score: 2, Funny) by Wierd0n3 on Thursday August 06 2015, @03:45PM
so dress in some spandex, and tell them you are the tick, they will completely understand, and pay for your next hotel visit where you can socialize with many people who are just like you.