Emerging Food Packaging Technologies /Kit L. Yam

Emerging food packaging technologies: Principles and practice
Book SeriesWoodhead Publishing Series in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition
PublisherWoodhead Publishing Limited
Date: March 2012
ISBN9781-84569-809-6 (Print)
EditorsKit L. Yam and Dong Sun Lee
-reviews advances in packaging materials, the design and implementation of smart packaging techniques, and developments in response to growing conces about packaging sustainability
-considers intelligent packaging and how advances in the consumer/packaging interface can improve food safety and quality
-examines developments in packaging materials, nanocomposites, emerging coating technologies, light-protective and non-thermal process packaging and the safety of plastics as food packaging materials
-comprehensively addresses eco-design, life cycle assessment and the utilization of biobased polmers in the production of smarter, environmentally-compatible packaging

The successful employment of food packaging can greatly improve product safety and quality, making the area a key conce to the food processing industry. Emerging food packaging technologies reviews advances in packaging materials, the design and implementation of smart packaging techniques, and developments in response to growing conces about packaging sustainability.
Part one of Emerging food packaging technologies focuses on developments in active packaging, reviewing controlled release packaging, active antimicrobials and nanocomposites in packaging, and edible chitosan coatings. Part two goes on to consider intelligent packaging and how advances in the consumer/packaging interface can improve food safety and quality. Developments in packaging material are analysed in part three, with nanocomposites, emerging coating technologies, light-protective and non-thermal process packaging discussed, alongside a consideration of the safety of plastics as food packaging materials. Finally, part four explores the use of eco-design, life cycle assessment, and the utilization of bio-based polymers in the production of smarter, environmentally-compatible packaging.
With its distinguished editors and inteational team of expert contributors, Emerging food packaging technologies is an indispensable reference work for all those responsible for the design, production and use of food and beverage packaging, as well as a key source for researchers in this area.