In considering the marketing of food products to children, the role of packaging warrants closer attention. The use of packaging as a marketing vehicle is evidently increasing. Marketing analysts suggest two reasons for this. First, many food choices are made at the point of sale, so ‘the package becomes a critical factor in [the] consumer decision-making process, because it communicates to con...

The shelf life of perishable foods as meat, poultry, fish, fruit, vegetables and fresh cerealbased products is limited by various factors that generally bring to changes in odor, flavor, color and texture until to their complete unacceptability. Packaging is the main tool to pre‐ vent product deterioration and prolong its shelf life. The package protects the food against physical, chemical and ...

Introduction of case-ready fresh meats to the marketplace has demonstrated a need to evaluate the benefits of this technology. The objectives of this study were to evaluate visual and chemical attributes of three different USDA quality grades (High Choice and above, Low Choice, Select) and three different muscles (semimembranosus, semitendinosus, and biceps femoris) of beef steaks encased in hi...

six different composite packaging materials were tested with the trades’ practice of polythene bags in storing smoked catfish for a period of six months. the thickness of the packaging materials ranges from 0.23 to 046 mm with water and oil absorption rates of the packaging materials varies from 0.23 to 10.00 and 0.28 to 10.857 glcm2/mm respectively. the impact resistance weight also varies fro...

Increasing demand for new and more advanced electronic products with a smaller form factor, superior functionality and performance with a lower overall cost has driven semiconductor industry to develop more innovative and emerging advanced packaging technologies. One of the hottest topics in the semiconductor industry today is a 3D packaging using Through Silicon Via (TSV) technology. Driven by...

Evaluation of the effect hot smoke with vacuum packaging on sensory, microbial, chemical, and shelf-life characteristics farmed A. persicus during storage

  This study was aimed to investigate effects of aqueous citric acid (CA) and ascorbic acid (AA) on lipid oxidation in comparison with effect of vacuum packaging in order to find better treatment to delay improper changes in the Persian sturgeon (Acipenser persicus) fillets during frozen storage due to lipid oxidation. In this study traditional packaging, vacuum packaging, ascorbic acid solutio...

background and objectives: paper and paperboard packaging play an important role in safety and quality of food products. common bacteria of paper and paperboard food packaging could grow due to specific conditions included humidity, tem- perature and major nutrition to contaminate the food. the purpose of this research was to investigate numbers and the types of bacteria in the food packaging p...