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

absorbers see scavengers integrated active packaging, storage bsorption 22, 144-5 and distribution 5. 18. 204 see also packaging- flavour interactions 535-49 absorption-type antimicrobial packaging legislation see legislation aldehyde scavengers 514

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Modified atmosphere (MA)techniques for horticultural products are based on the principle that manipulating or controlling the composition of the surrounding atmosphere affects the metabolism of the packaged product. By creating favourable conditions, quality decay of the product can be inhibited. The different MA techniques come with different levels of control to realise and/or maintain the composition of the atmosphere around the product. Passive MA packaging(MAP)

26.1 Introduction: new packaging techniques and the consumer New packaging techniques promise consumers safe food products that keep their high quality throughout shelf-life. The improved quality has been achieved by applying tailored technological solutions that require highly specialised knowl- edge. From consumers'point of view these new techniques require explanations if food can keep fresh for an unexpected and thereby unnaturally long time

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

Food packaging is a still growing market As a consequence, the demand to re-use post-consumer packaging materials grows as well. Recycling of packaging materials plays an increasing role in packaging, and numerous applications can already be found on the market. Ten or twenty years ago most post-consumer packaging waste was going into landfill sites or to incineration

Major technological developments in food packaging can introduce many benefits to consumers and food and food-packaging industries, but at the same time they are liable to the introduction of new problems. Although active and intelligent packaging continues to broaden in scope and these new packaging systems are already being successfully applied in the USA, Japan and Australia its penetration in the European

Package design has great significance for the success of foodstuffs nowadays. Packages are clearly an integral part of the manufacturing and distribution processes. As clothes speak for their wearers, so too packages speak for the packed food product. Packages are developed not only to make weekdays easier for the consumer, but also to make times of celebration more festive. Many food products would not be in shops and on dining tables, if they had not been packed. Nowadays packages face difficult challenges and roles. They have to create the ambience that hitherto was forged by personal service. Packages replace the salesman