Moisture

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Water activity can help perfect your candy and confectionery products.
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Water activity in candy and confectionery

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Getting the moisture measurement and water activity right is critical for nearly every candy, chocolate or confectionery product.

Shelf-stable meat products like salami, pepperoni, jerky, need precise water activity measurement to ensure quality and profitability.
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Water activity and shelf-stable meat products

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Water activity. If you’re making shelf-stable meat, you’re required to measure it. But you can also profit from measuring it, and this guide will show you how.

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Mold in snack foods: Why it still causes so many recalls

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5 things to know about mold before formulating snack foods. There have been more than a dozen mold and microbe-related food safety recalls in the last year.

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Water activity and tobacco

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Curing tobacco causes changes in both chemical composition and moisture. Tightly controlling moisture allows quality control managers to deliver a consistent product.

Water activity measurement can improve quality and shelf life in nuts like pistachios, walnuts, and others.
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Measuring water activity in nuts and dried fruit increases quality and profits

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These products are highly susceptible to moisture issues during processing and storage. Measuring moisture and water activity brings huge competitive advantages.

Without the right water activity levels, plastics can end out brittle or imperfect.
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Water activity: a better way to monitor moisture in plastics

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Injection molding plastic parts with resin that has too much moisture in it can lead to brittle, unattractive or otherwise imperfect parts. Water activity can help.

Producers of pet food, pet treats, and other baked or dried pet snacks like these can improve their product quality and their overall yield with the help of water activity measurement.
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Water activity: A better moisture metric for pet food

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Find the ideal water activity range for your pet food product that maximizes profit, nutrition, and tastiness while keeping it safe from microbes and mold.

Dried distiller's grain is subject to a range of moisture issues – water activity measurement is key in preventing and resolving them.
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Water activity for monitoring the quality of dried distillers grain

Water activity for monitoring the quality of dried distillers grain

Ethanol producers can boost efficiency, save money, and ensure the quality of their product by using water activity.

Water activity measurements can help maintain quality, texture, and effectiveness in functional foods like those pictured here.
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Water activity in functional foods

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Functional foods need a shelf life that guarantees not only safety but effectiveness of the functional ingredient. Water activity can help.

Shelf-stable meat products like salami, pepperoni, jerky, need precise water activity measurement to ensure quality and profitability.
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Water activity and shelf-stable meat products

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Water activity. If you’re making shelf-stable meat, you’re required to measure it. But you can also profit from measuring it, and this guide will show you how.

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Water activity in pharmaceutical applications

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Water activity measures the energy status of water – and energy status is a better way to predict and evaluate moisture-related reactions that damage pharmaceuticals.

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