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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 07 2015, @04:06AM
THEN they came out with skim milk, and 2% and 1%. Crazy shit. If you want a glass of water, there's the tap. If you want milk, there's the cow. Jeez, Louise, all the government ever did with milk, was to piss me off.
How revealing that you think the government, rather than free market forces, forced dairies to sell skim milk. Must have been the UN enforcing a world-wide production quota with their black helicopters and skim-ops special forces teams.