title: Monitoring the quality of perishable foods: opportunities for intelligent packaging.
abstract: This review paper discusses opportunities for intelligent packaging for monitoring directly or indirectly quality attributes of perishable packaged foods. The possible roles of intelligent packaging as a tool in supply chain management are discussed as well as the barriers to implement this kind of technology in commercial applications. Cases on pasteurized milk and fresh cod fillets illustrate the application of different intelligent packaging concepts to monitor and estimate quality attributes. Conditions influencing quality (e.g., temperature-time) can be monitored to predict the quality of perishable products when the initial quality is known and rather constant (e.g., pasteurized milk). Products with a highly variable initial quality (e.g., fresh fish) require sensors monitoring compounds correlated with quality.
authors.affiliation: a Food Quality and Design Group, Department of Agrotechnology and Food Sciences , Wageningen University and Research Centre , Wageningen , The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Jenneke K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Heising
authors.forename: Matthijs
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dekker
authors.forename: Paul V
authors.initials: PV
authors.lastname: Bartels
authors.forename: M A J S Tiny
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Van Boekel
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015374:Biosensing Techniques; D005399:Fishes; D005506:Food Contamination / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005516:Food Microbiology; D018857:Food Packaging / Q000379:methods*; D005519:Food Preservation / Q000379:methods*; D008460:Meat / Q000032:analysis / Q000382:microbiology; D008892:Milk / Q000737:chemistry / Q000382:microbiology; D061352:Pasteurization / Q000379:methods; D013696:Temperature