Chocolate, ice cream and infant formula are everyday consumables. Milk powder is an essential ingredient in these products. The production process from fresh milk to powdered milk is quite complex and energy consuming. From 1 November 2013, TNO takes the lead in a 3 year €6 million European project called
Since few days we can read news about a letter of formal notice sent by the European Commission to our country, in which it is contained the prohibition to use powder milk, condensed milk and re-energised milk to produce dairy products. This prohibition refers to a law approved in 1974
The hope to see prices of dairy products increasing has been disappointed during the Global Dairy Trade (the global stock exchange for dairy products) when new minimum were recorded compared to the last 6 years, the powder milk leading the trend downward. The Global Dairy Trade index, based on prices