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Review
. 2020 Nov 7;9(11):1628.
doi: 10.3390/foods9111628.

Innovations in Smart Packaging Concepts for Food: An Extensive Review

Emanuela Drago  1 , Roberta Campardelli  1 , Margherita Pettinato  1 , Patrizia Perego  1
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Innovations in Smart Packaging Concepts for Food: An Extensive Review

Emanuela Drago et al. Foods. .

Abstract

Innovation in food packaging is mainly represented by the development of active and intelligent packing technologies, which offer to deliver safer and high-quality food products. Active packaging refers to the incorporation of active component into the package with the aim of maintaining or extending the product quality and shelf-life. The intelligent systems are able to monitor the condition of packaged food in order to provide information about the quality of the product during transportation and storage. These packaging technologies can also work synergistically to yield a multipurpose food packaging system. This review is a critical and up-dated analysis of the results reported in the literature about this fascinating and growing field of research. Several aspects are considered and organized going from the definitions and the regulations, to the specific functions and the technological aspects regarding the manufacturing technologies, in order to have a complete overlook on the overall topic.

Keywords: additives; food product shelf-life; food safety; nanocomposites; packaging technologies; polymers packaging; sensors.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1
Active and Intelligent packaging classification and their main properties.
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Figure 2
Main properties for ideal phase change material (PCM).
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