New product from Dominion Salt

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34130, 17 April 1976, Page 18

New product from Dominion Salt

Dominion Salt, Ltd, has commenced producing vacuum refined salt at its Lake Grassmere and Mount Maunganui refineries.

The company, which is'number of independent New Zealand’s only producer laboratories including the of solar refined salt, is D.S.I.R. laboratory at Petone, jointly-owned bv Skellerup show that the New Zealand Industries, Ltd, Cerebos and product is of high quality the Government. and comes well within the

The investment of sl.sm in new plant has culminated in the production of pure dried vacuum (p.d.v.) salt at both refineries in the last few weeks. In the past, New Zealand has spent about s2m each year importing vacuum salt for butter, cheese and animal casings processing. The new development will provide the dairy and meat processing industries with high purity salt equal in quality to that currently being imported. ’ nalyses of the p.d.v. salt, carried out recently by a

British Standard 998:1969 (and amendments) required to- use of salt in human edible foodstuffs. Individual trials have commenced with freezing and animal casing processors, dairy companies producing butter and cheese and other food processing companies. The dairy division of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries are monitoring the dairy company trials and, all being well, will grant final approval for its widespread use in dairy produce later this year.