Food and Nutrition

Food Packaging, Preservation and Quality Standards

Food packaging is one of the essential areas in food technology and that plays an important role in preserving all types of foods. The development of novel packaging in food segment is contributed by the large use of packaged foods, rising need of prepared foods by the usage of microwave meals and growing use of smaller size food packages. Another important reason for innovative food packaging is that the rising problems with food borne microbial outbreaks which demands the utilization of packaging with antimicrobial effects along side retention of food quality.