INDUSTRIAL VISIT REPORT

SUSEELA.M.S

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CONTENTS
 Introduction
 About hatsun
 The visit - Entry
- Quality assurance lab
- Milk packaging and
storage
- Seminar hall
 Certifications of hatsun
 Conclusion
INTRODUCTION
We the students from the “DEPARTMENT OF
MICROBIOLOGY” along with our Prof.Dr.P.Hanumantha
Rao and Prof.Dr.K.Kavitha visited the “HATSUN AGRO
PRODUCT LIMITED” located at Kancheepuram on 22nd
feb,2019 as a part of our academic curriculum.
Objective of the visit - To get exposed to the industry
and to learn about the production.
ABOUT HATSUN
Hatsun often called Hatsun Agro Products (HAP) is the
largest private sector dairy Company in India based in
Chennai. It was founded by R. G. Chandramogan in 1970.
It had become a billion dollar company by mid-2016.The
Company was also awarded "The Fastest Growing Asian
Dairy Company". The Dairy product maker has been
bagging the Golden Trophy from the Indian Government
for largest dairy products exporter for the last many
years. HAP manufactures and markets products that
cater to both cooking and consumption, like milk, curd,
ice creams, dairy whitener, skimmed milk powder, ghee,
paneer and lots more. The brands have become
household names in over one million Indian houses. Arun
Icecreams, Arokya Milk, Hatsun Curd, Hatsun Paneer,
Hatsun Ghee, Hatsun Dairy Whitener, Ibaco and have
become popular choices across the country. 96.23% of
the sales comes from consumers alone.They also have a
healthy global presence with dairy ingredients exported
to 38 countries around the world - primarily in America,
the Middle East and South Asian markets.
The key focus is on delivering quality, and to that end,
they have a technically advanced system that works in
accordance with a time-tested business processes across
their 16 plants.
THE VISIT
We entered the industry and we were provided with the
protection garments –jackets and head caps to wear on
and then we were taken to the quality assurance
laboratory.
QUALITY ASSURANCE LAB
Raw milk samples from the farms are collected and
tested for the assurance of quality .
 Methylene Blue Dye Reduction Test
Commonly known as MBRT test is done to assess
the microbiological quality of the raw and
pasteurized milk.The test is performed by adding a
blue colour dye solution to the milk in a test tube
and it is kept in the water bath. The added dye
solution gets decolourized when the oxygen present
in the milk gets exhausted due to microbial activity.
The sooner the decolourization, more inferior is the
bacteriological quality of milk .The amount of time
taken to get decolourized is used as the
acceptance/rejection criteria for the raw and
processed milk.
  Alochol test
It is done to ensure that the milk is free from
adulterations.
The alcohol test is used on fresh milk to indicate
whether it will coagulate on thermal processing.
This test is especially important for the manufacture
of UHT milk, evaporated milk and milk powders.

 Acidity test
Bacteria that normally develop in raw milk produce
more or less of lactic acid. In the acidity test the acid
is neutralised with 0.1 N Sodium hydroxide and the
amount of alkaline is measured. The percentage of
lactic is calculated.

 Antibiotic tests are also carried out .

There was also an equipment called FT ONE

which does all the assesment automatically
based upon the programmed data in it .
It reduces the manual work.

These are the works going on in quality assurance lab.

MILK PACKAGING AND STORAGE
 The assured milk is then packed according to the fat
content present in the milk.
 The packed milk is then stored inside the cold room
and distributed to the customers.

SEMINAR HALL
 Then we were taken to the seminar hall where they
projected various commercial advertisements of
hatsun product and also we were informed about
the process going on in the microbiology laboratory.
 Assessment such as standard plate count, yeast and
mould count,coliform detection are carried out to
ensure the safety of the product.

Apart from milk - ghee,curd,panneer,ice cream etc

are the other products produced by hatsun.
CERTIFICATIONS OF HATSUN
 Food Safety Management System Standard of ISO
 Quality Management System Standard of ISO
 Environmental Management System Standard of ISO
 Export Inspection Council of India (Ministry of
Commerce & Industry Govt. Of India) Certificate of
Approval of Quality for Export of Milk Product.
 The Milk and Milk Product Order MMPO -1992
Registration – FSSAI (Ministry of Health and Family
Welfare, Govt. Of India)
CONCLUSION
Overall the visit enriched us with the knowlwdge about
the industry .