Quality assurance and quality control of aseptic packaging

Quality assurance of aseptic packaging should cover all factors from plant design up to the distribution of the products. To assure the sterility of the product there is a need for microbiological rapid methods besides the traditional microbiological methods. But before these methods can be applied, much investigation is needed. Furthermore, there is a need for nondestructive methods for on‐line detection of the package integrity and for controlling the quality of the product after preincubation.