title: Active and intelligent packaging: The indication of quality and safety.
abstract: The food industry has been under growing pressure to feed an exponentially increasing world population and challenged to meet rigorous food safety law and regulation. The plethora of media consumption has provoked consumer demand for safe, sustainable, organic, and wholesome products with "clean" labels. The application of active and intelligent packaging has been commercially adopted by food and pharmaceutical industries as a solution for the future for extending shelf life and simplifying production processes; facilitating complex distribution logistics; reducing, if not eliminating the need for preservatives in food formulations; enabling restricted food packaging applications; providing convenience, improving quality, variety and marketing features; as well as providing essential information to ensure consumer safety. This chapter reviews innovations of active and intelligent packaging which advance packaging technology through both scavenging and releasing systems for shelf life extension, and through diagnostic and identification systems for communicating quality, tracking and brand protection.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Food Technology, Faculty of Science , Chulalongkorn University , Bangkok , Thailand.
authors.forename: Theeranun
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Janjarasskul
authors.affiliation: b Department of Packaging and Materials Technology, Faculty of Agro-Industry , Kasetsart University , Bangkok , Thailand.|c Center for Advanced Studies in Agriculture and Food, KU Institute for Advanced Studies (CASAF, NRU-KU) , Kasetsart University , Bangkok , Thailand.|d Center for Intelligent Agro-Food Packaging (CIFP), College of Life Science and Biotechnology , Dongguk University - Seoul , Seoul , Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Panuwat
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Suppakul
mesh_terms: D000890:Anti-Infective Agents; D000975:Antioxidants; D018857:Food Packaging / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D005519:Food Preservation / Q000379:methods*; D059022:Food Safety / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D000890:Anti-Infective Agents; D000975:Antioxidants
keywords: Oxygen scavenger; antimicrobial/antioxidant packaging; food spoilage indicator; integrity indicator; radio frequency identification; time-temperature indicator