Abstract
The important trends in the food market including health, quality, convenience, and safety, will continue to determine what types of packaging are used in future. Manufacturers are making packaging unique enough to keep products fresh and nutritionally valuable until consumption. European enterprises from the packaging industry and the chemical industry have developed oxygen absorber and indicator systems that can be incorporated into polymer composite foils for food packaging. Through integration of further types of absorbers and emitters into packaging materials, new function principles will be made possible such as humidity adjustment or antimicrobial effects. The packaging industry is also taking effective measures to develop and integrate special indicators into packaging materials that will permit indicating product specific quality reduction on the basis of key substances, which also will be particularly effective for high price segment.
Original language | English |
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Pages | 72-74 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Volume | 97 |
No | 12 |
Specialist publication | Kunststoffe International |
State | Published - 2007 |