So I am trying to figure out a new phenomenon that has happened within our distribution company. We have been selling a SKU of salted butter for a while but recently, the packages and boxes have been arriving wet.
The vendor delivery is to one of our warehouses and then we transfer a portion of the product to another warehouse location. Teh vendor delivery is fine to the first warehouse. The product when it arrives to the second warehouse is wet.
This has happened twice in a row. Product was in different areas of the refrigerated trailer each time. There are other butter items on the trailer that were unaffected. Condensation is significant enough that it saturates areas of the corrugate case, but also is within the wax paper wrapping of the butter. You would think that cases were getting dripped on from an external source, but that would not translate into the product itself being wet/getting through the wax paper.
Has anyone ever experienced this phenomenon? I cannot think of any common thread for why only this one particular type of butter is affected and why now.