5. Various cleaning treatments
As already mentioned, a practice which has become traditional among all keg beer packers is to pre-treat the keg with 7% concentrated soda ash. To this end, 2 to 3 L of this solution are introduced into the keg, just to cover the bung ring on the inside, from a specially equipped station located just after the depalletizer, well upstream of the filling machine, so as to benefit from a fairly long contact time of the soda with the dirt during transfer from the container (before the washing/filling process actually begins).
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This specific treatment station is generally used to remove the carbon dioxide still contained in the returned barrel, and to keep it under pressure so that it can be judged to be leak-proof, but also to check that no attempt has been made to dismantle the barrel plunger and introduce foreign bodies with malicious intent....
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Bibliography
Websites
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Reviews
• Liquids and packaging http://www.editionspci.fr
• Magazine liquids http://www.interfaces-logistiques.com
• Digest packaging
• Magazine packaging...
Events
International Packaging Exhibition held annually in Paris http://www.all4pack.fr
Regulations
• Decree no. 78-166 of January 31, 1978 on the metrological control of certain prepackages, supplemented by the Decrees of October 20, 1978 and February 25, 1980.
• Directive 2007/45/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 September 2007 laying down rules on nominal quantities for pre-packed products, repealing Council Directives 75/106/EEC and 80/232/EEC, and amending Council Directive...
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Professional and training organizations
• Professional technical center: IFBM – Qualtech, Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy (France)
• Institut français des boissons de la brasserie malterie http://www.ifbm.fr
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