Hot Filling will sterilize your products and containers if over 184 deg. F. But, you must turn your container over to sterilize the head-space and cap surface.
Filling Cold is a practice of Clean Room operations where everything and everyone is responsible for sterilization and sanitizing. From the entry to the cold room to the cleaning and sterilization solutions rinsing bottles and UV Sterilization of each cap insures the cleaning of the packaging prior to filling and capping. Every movement in the cleanroom is directing contaminates away from open containers.
Ambient packaging utilizes both Hot Fill Cleaning and Cold Fill Cleanroom practices and ACEPTIC solves it all.
