Understanding Humidity Interactions with Food and Packaging Materials
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Webinar Description
Moisture interaction plays a critical role in food quality, processability, and stability, directly dictating key attributes like crispness, flowability, and microbial safety. Understanding these moisture-material behaviours at varying relative humidities is essential for preventing unwanted texture changes, clumping, and premature spoilage. Dynamic gravimetric Vapor Sorption (DVS) serves as a premier analytical technique for measuring how raw ingredients and final formulations absorb and desorb moisture. By using high-precision microbalances to continuously record mass changes under precisely controlled environmental conditions, DVS delivers rapid, real-time insight into water-solid interactions that traditional loss-on-drying methods often miss.
In this presentation, Surface Measurement Systems will present an educational webinar based around the well-established technique of Dynamic gravimetric Vapor Sorption (DVS). This applications-oriented webinar will focus on the moisture sorption properties of food materials and its implications in process-development, pre-formulation and formulation development. In particular, practical examples of using the DVS for sorption mechanism determination and modeling, drying kinetics, caking, powder flow and vapor-induced transformations will be discussed. Finally, water vapor transmission rates (WVTR) and kinetic studies will highlight the DVS for packaging applications and shelf-life prediction.
Conference Date
16-10-2026
Conference Agenda
- Dynamic gravimetric Vapor Sorption (DVS) and its applications
- Water vapor transmission rates (WVTR) and kinetic studies using DVS
Who should attend
- R&D and Research Scientists
- Formulation and Product Development Scientists
- Quality Control Managers and Laboratory Scientists
- Materials Scientists and Packaging Specialists
- Laboratory Managers
- Application Scientists
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Humidity Interactions Draft Programme
Download Programme PDFFriday, 16th October 2026
| 14:30 |
Inauguration
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| 14:30 |
Introduction to Glostem and Surface Measurement Systems Tavleen Thakur Associate Manager, Glostem Private Limited, India |
| 14:33 |
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| 14:40 |
Technical Session
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| 14:40 |
Understanding Humidity Interactions with Food and Packaging Materials Daniel J. Burnett Vice President, Surface Measurement Systems, United States |
| 16:00 |
Q/A Session
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| 16:15 |
Feedback and Closing
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