Active Food Packaging

This text describes a field of packaging technology which is continuing to grow in importance. A global perspective is provided by an international team of authors, five of whom are from the USA, all of whom are acknowledged experts in the field. Coverage is of those packages designed to interact with the packaged food, or the contained atmosphere. The drive behind this field is the need to produce packages which reduce the requirement for food additives - which are perceived as harmful by consumers. Packaging and packaging machinery users and manufacturers should find this book a useful productivity tool, while food technologists, regulators and toxicologists should find it useful as as a reference source.