Project Experience: Wax on Cheese

EMSL was asked to perform wax analysis for a US cheese manufacturer that had packaged some cheese that required aging.  After several years, the cheese developed an off-odor/taste and was deemed worthless. EMSL performed  GC/MS analysis on the was to show differences between acceptable wax and the wax used in the suspect cheese. Process related issues were also discovered as a result of this testing.