Traditional food packaging protects food from external contamination, oxygen, water vapour and light. However, newer packaging technologies such as Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) do more than just provide protection from outside influences. The study was conducted to increase the shelf life of paneer by using MAP technique. The paneer samples were packaged in high barrier bags (LLD/BA/Nylo...

Eco friendly pharmaceutical packaging materials are the safe materials for environment which enclose pharmaceutical product in any of the dosage forms. They may be derived from natural resources, like starches, proteins etc. that inflict little or nearly no harm on the environment and the environment dependent species. This review highlight the eco friendly materials, their classification, uses...

9000 Plymouth Ave North, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55427 1.800.245.5615 www.medallionlabs.com Why Study Shelf Life? The modern food industry has developed and expanded because of its ability to deliver a wide variety of high quality food products to consumers on a nationwide and worldwide basis. This feat has been accomplished by building stability into the products through processing, packaging, ...

People often say that beer tastes better from a bottle than from a can. However, one can ask whether this perceived difference is reliable across consumers; And, if so, whether it is purely a psychological phenomenon (associated with the influence of packaging on taste perception), or whether instead it reflects some more mundane physico-chemical interaction between the packaging material (or p...

abstract leafy vegetables such as lettuce are more susceptible to post harvest losses, thus application desirable treatments can be recommendable. generally, type of packaging, such as modified atmosphere packaging (map) and wrapping can considerably suppress post harvest loss of horticultural products. in this study, the effects of polypropylene film (thickness 30 and 40 micron) wrapping and m...