title: Active and intelligent packaging for food: is it the future?
abstract: This paper gives an overview of the legal consequences of a new EU framework regulation on food contact materials which includes controls on active and intelligent packaging. Recent developments in active and intelligent packaging systems are described, two examples of which aim at achieving improvements in quality and safety of food products. The first one is an on-command preservative-releasing packaging system. The second system is an intelligent concept, based on the development of a non-invasive microbial growth sensor to monitor the sterility of food products.
authors.affiliation: TNO Quality of Life, Zeist, The Netherlands. dejong@voeding.tno.nl
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: De Jong
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Boumans
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Slaghek
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Van Veen
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rijk
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Van Zandvoort
mesh_terms: D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects; D004867:Equipment Design; D005062:European Union; D005504:Food Analysis / Q000379:methods; D005506:Food Contamination; D005516:Food Microbiology; D018857:Food Packaging / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000639:trends; D005519:Food Preservation / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D012449:Safety; D013696:Temperature; D014118:Toxins, Biological / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D014118:Toxins, Biological