date:Mar 24, 2014
Measuring sodium levels in cheese more quickly may aid in cheese industry sodium reduction efforts. Thanks to the efforts of a Cheese and Sodium Best Practices Task Force, in the future the time needed to measure sodium levels may fall to five minutes, as opposed to a current method that may take one day in-house or three to five days if product is sent to an outside source for measuring.
These rapid results will allow cheese makers to adjust salt levels during the cheese-making process, said B