Our Food: Packaging & Public Health

Our Food: Packaging & Public Health

RIVM rapport 270555009 Our food, our health

P.O. Box 1 3720 BA Bilthoven The Netherlands www.rivm.nl/en Our food, our health Healthy and unhealthy diets receive a lot of attention nowadays, and there are good reasons for this. Each year, overweight and unfavourable dietary composition account for thousands of new cases of illness and unnecessary deaths. The number of young people and adults who are overweight is increasing. Foodborne inf...

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Innovative Food Packaging Solutions

The Institute of Food Technologists has issued this Scientific Status Summary to inform readers of recent innovations in food packaging materials.

Active Packaging for Food Applications - A Review

The purpose of food packaging is to preserve the quality and safety of the food it contains from the time of manufacture to the time it is used by the consumer. Recently, the demand for safe and high quality foods, as well as changes in consumer preferences have led to the development of innovative and novel approaches in food packaging technology. One such development is the active food packag...