Study on Food Safety and Green Food Packaging

2012 ◽  
Vol 550-553 ◽  
pp. 1915-1918
Author(s):  
Lin Lin Shang ◽  
Wei Feng
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Food Packaging ◽  
Packaging Materials ◽  
Safety Hazards ◽  
Safety Problem ◽  
Green Food ◽  
Potential Safety ◽  
Safe Food

Safe food packaging is of great significance in solving food safety problem, which can ensure the quality of the food. At the same time protecting the environment should be taken into consideration, and therefore sound food packaging is not only safe to human health but also green to the environment. In this paper potential safety hazards in food packaging materials and how to develop green food packaging are discussed at length.

scholarly journals Recycling of Post-Consumer Packaging Materials into New Food Packaging Applications—Critical Review of the European Approach and Future Perspectives

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 824
Author(s):  
Roland Franz ◽  
Frank Welle
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Food Packaging ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Packaging Materials ◽  
Food Packaging Materials ◽  
Effective Manner ◽  
Recycled Plastics

The European strategy for plastics, as part of the EU’s circular economy action plan, should support the reduction in plastic waste. One key element in this action plan is the improvement of the economics and quality of recycled plastics. In addition, an important goal is that by 2030, all plastics packaging placed on the EU market must either be reusable or can be recycled in a cost-effective manner. This means that, at the end, a closed-loop recycling of food packaging materials should be established. However, the use of recyclates must not result in less severe preventive consumer protection of food packaging materials. This may lead to a conservative evaluation of authorities on post-consumer recyclates in food packaging applications. On the other hand, over-conservatism might over-protect the consumer and generate insurmountable barriers to the application of post-consumer recyclates for food packaging and, hence, counteract the targets of circular economy. The objective of this review is to provide an insight into the evaluation of post-consumer recyclates applied in direct contact to food. Safety assessment criteria as developed by the European Food Safety Authority EFSA will be presented, explained, and critically discussed.

Synthesis of thermally protective PET–PEG multiblock copolymers as food packaging materials

2021 ◽  
pp. 096739112110456
Author(s):  
Tuğba Güngör Ertuğral ◽  
Cemil Alkan
Keyword(s):  
Ethylene Glycol ◽  
Phase Change ◽  
Food Packaging ◽  
Phase Change Materials ◽  
Thermal Protection ◽  
Packaging Materials ◽  
Multiblock Copolymers ◽  
Food Packaging Materials ◽  
Poly Ethylene

One of the storage conditions affecting quality of food stuffs due to short shelf life is temperature. Thermal insulation can be achieved by adding phase change materials (PCMs) to packaging materials. PCMs store and release latent heat of phase change during melting and crystallization operations, respectively. Thus, they can provide thermal protection for packaged foods. The aim of this study is to prepare new food packaging materials poly (ethylene terephthalate)–poly (ethylene glycol) (PET–PEG) multiblock copolymers as solid–solid phase change materials (SSPCM) as potential food packaging materials with thermal energy storage (TES) property. Polyesterification was carried out with PEG at different average molecular weights (1000, 4000 and 10,000 g/mol), ethylene glycol (EG) and terephthaloyl chloride (TPC). Synthesized PET–PEG multiblock copolymers were characterized using Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) methods. The crystal structures of PET–PEG multiblock copolymers were characterized by polarized optical microscopy (POM) and their surface properties were determined by performing contact angle tests. TES capacity of the PET–PEG multiblock copolymers was found in range of 26.1–150.5 J/g. Consequently, this study demonstrates the potential of PET–PEG multiblock copolymers suitable for effective thermal preservation in packaging material applications to maintain the quality of packaged food stuffs.

scholarly journals Food-Safety Hazards in the Pork Chain in Nagaland, North East India: Implications for Human Health

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 403-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Fahrion ◽  
Lanu Jamir ◽  
Kenivole Richa ◽  
Sonuwara Begum ◽  
Vilatuo Rutsa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Safety Hazards ◽  
North East India ◽  
North East

Is Acrylamide really a food safety issue?

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Dal Castel Krein ◽  
Rafaela Julyana Barboza Devos ◽  
Luciane Maria Colla ◽  
Christian Oliveira Reinehr
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Human Exposure ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Safety Issue ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Healthy Food ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Safety Problem

Purpose Acrylamide is a compound found in several food products. Due to the toxicity of this compound, research also seeks strategies to modify industrial and homemade processes, impacting on the reduction of the compound. This paper aims to discuss the aspects surrounding the presence of acrylamide in foods. Design/methodology/approach Published literature on the presence of acrylamide in foods and on its effects has been reviewed. This paper explores the importance of this compound, summarizes the knowledge of its formation and gathers data on its incidence in food and the possibilities of mitigation. Special attention is given to an evaluation of the toxicological tests applied, to analyze whether acrylamide can be considered as a food safety problem. Findings Human exposure to food with high levels of acrylamide varies in their levels regarding the consumption of food in the diet and not only by the level of the compound present in them. Although the compound is well defined as toxic to humans, the association between its intake and most common cancers may not be directly related. Originality/value Depending on the approach of the researchers, contradictory results are obtained, showing the importance of this topic to the development of healthy food products. Further research is still needed to validate the potential effects of acrylamide on human health.

A Method of Reducing Volatile Compounds in Polypropylene Packaging Materials

2011 ◽  
Vol 284-286 ◽  
pp. 2057-2063
Author(s):  
Dong Li Li ◽  
Wen Cai Xu ◽  
Ya Bo Fu
Keyword(s):  
Ethyl Acetate ◽  
Food Packaging ◽  
Food Contamination ◽  
Packaging Materials ◽  
Adsorption Behaviour ◽  
Nano Silica ◽  
Polypropylene Composites ◽  
Modification Process ◽  
Safe Food ◽  
Solvent Residue

When food contamination problems occur, one of the first priorities is adsorption to any volatile or semivolatile organic chemicals in packaging materials. In this contribution the adsorption behaviour of modified polypropylene composites containing nano-silica is reported. The nano silica can increase the polarity of PP and decrease more volatile solvent residue of ethyl acetate in CPP film. If lower volatile solvent used in print ink or adhesive, load of nano silica can decrease solvent residue too, when a lesser decrease is happen in crystallinity of modified PP. The nano modification process is able to produce more safe food packaging materials, but must consider the load of nanosilica.

scholarly journals Food safety concerns deriving from the use of silver based food packaging materials

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandra Pezzuto ◽  
Carmen Losasso ◽  
Marzia Mancin ◽  
Federica Gallocchio ◽  
Alessia Piovesana ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Food Packaging ◽  
Packaging Materials ◽  
Safety Concerns ◽  
Food Packaging Materials

Development Trend of Food Packaging Materials

2013 ◽  
Vol 477-478 ◽  
pp. 1533-1536
Author(s):  
Li Xia Ma ◽  
Kun Qian Wang
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Transport Process ◽  
Food Packaging ◽  
Development Trend ◽  
Packaging Materials ◽  
Packaging Technology ◽  
Food Packaging Materials ◽  
Package Materials

The development of sci-tech has promoted the institutionalization of life, food safety is a subsystem of life, and it is a huge task to ensure food safety, which thus jointly puts forward new requirements for packaging technology, especially for package materials. Nowadays, the existing food packaging materials are more and more unsatisfying, and it is hoped that the packaging materials can extend the period of use of foods and ensure no extrusion on foods in the transport process, and the consumption of packaging materials can be reduced to save resources. In this paper, the consumers psychology, the purpose of packaging and corresponding requirements raised for packaging materials are analyzed, then development trend of packaging materials is explored.

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