Intelligent Packaging in the Food Sector: A Brief Overview

The trend towards sustainability, improved product safety, and high-quality standards are important in all areas of life sciences. In order to satisfy these requirements, intelligent packaging is used in the food sector. These systems can monitor permanently the quality status of a product and share...

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Published inFoods Vol. 8; no. 1; p. 16
Main Authors Müller, Patricia, Schmid, Markus
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland MDPI 07.01.2019
MDPI AG
Subjects
consumer satisfaction
food industry
food waste
indicators
intelligent packaging
open climate campaign
packaging
product safety
Review
sensors
smart packaging
packaging
sensors
indicators
intelligent packaging
smart packaging
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Summary:The trend towards sustainability, improved product safety, and high-quality standards are important in all areas of life sciences. In order to satisfy these requirements, intelligent packaging is used in the food sector. These systems can monitor permanently the quality status of a product and share the information with the customer. In this way, food waste can be reduced and customer satisfaction can be optimized. Depending on the product, different types of intelligent packaging technologies are used and discussed in this review. The three main groups are: data carriers, indicators, and sensors. At this time, they are not that widespread, but their potential is already known. In which areas intelligent packaging should be implemented, how the systems work, and which values they offer are dealt in this review.
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ISSN:2304-8158
2304-8158
DOI:10.3390/foods8010016