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Article: Food worriers turning to UHT milk, Tetra Pak says.(news: DAIRY)(ultra high temperature)(Brief article)
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- May 30, 2009
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Anxious shoppers concerned about food safety are turning increasingly to long life milk, new research reveals.
Global UHT milk consumption has increased 7.9% a year on average in the past four years, claimed Tetra Pak, which publishes the report on future dairy trends next week. This has taken its overall share of the liquid dairy market from 18.7% to 23%.
Although lower demand for dairy in the recession would slow growth across the category, global consumption of UHT milk would still continue to rise at an annual rate of 5.2%, reaching 70 billion litres by 2012, predicted Tetra Pak.
That would outstrip total dairy consumption, which would grow ...