“…In the literature, there are many applications of NIR spectroscopy for the determination of the quality (Adamopoulos, Goula, & Petropakis, 2001;Purnomoadi, Batajoo, Ueda, & Terada, 1999) or identity of dairy products (Karoui et al, 2005;Pillonel et al, 2003) and also for their shelf-life evaluation (Cattaneo, Giardina, Sinelli, Riva, & Giangiacomo, 2005).…”