PINE BUTTER BOXES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 80, 16 March 1933, Page 11

PINE BUTTER BOXES

TAINT PROBLEM ATTACKED. AN AUSTRALIAN SOLUTION. The problem of wood taint in butter packed for shipment in hoop pine boxes is expected to be disposed of as a result of experiments made in the use of specially treated hoop pine boxes in Australia. A bulletin issued by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research states that a series of experimental butter shipments was made in August last. The butter was packed in tile ordinary hoop pme box, and also in hoop pine boxes which had been sprayed with tho casein-formalin mixture developed by the Division of Forest Products. On arrival in London these shipments were carefully inspected and the butter graded. Reports have now been received for three of these shipments, and the results are reported to be entirely satisfactory. In no single case was taint or odour noticeable when the butter from tho sprayed boxes was examined, whereas in two of the shipments the butter from every unsprayed box showed both taint and odour and in the third shipment, while taint was absent, there was a noticeable odour in the butter from the unspiayed boxes. It is added these results are so satisfactory that it has been decided to send larger shipments in sprayed hoop pine boxes, and arrangements are now being made to despatch 500 boxes from New South Wales. A few such shipments shotild dispose of once and for all the vexed question of wood taint caused by hoop pine Doxes. The general application of the spray method will undoubtedly remove causes of complaint.