2.1 Introduction: the role of packaging in the food chain 2.2 Active packaging techniques 2.3 Intelligent packaging techniques 2.4 Current use of novel packaging techniques
All engineering, manufacturing, quality and sales efforts are wasted if your transport packaging fails and your customer receives a damaged product'(ISTA).! 25.1 Introduction: the supply chain for perishable foods Food is a perishable product. It is temperature-, moisture-, and time-sensitive, compared to books, automobile parts, and clothes, however they are shipped
24.1 Introduction: the problem of plastic packaging waste Polymers and plastics are typical materials of the last century and have made a tremendous growth of some hundreds of tons/year at the beginning of the 1930s to more than 150 million tons/year at the end of the 20th century with 220 million tons forecast by 2005. Western Europe will account for 19% of that amount. Today
Modified Atmospheric Packaging(MAP)is a precise description of this shelf- life extension technique (Bennett 1995). In the UK, MAP mainly involves the use of three gases-carbon dioxide, nitrogen and oxygen although other gases are used elsewhere. Products are packed in various combinations of these three gases depending on the physical and chemical properties of the food