Food

Packaging
Fortunato Ubaldo Jr and Chimi Dolma
Importance of Food Packaging
It is vital for protecting food against external
microbes and bacteria. It also help preserve
food and ensure it doesn’t spoil. After food
packaging is removed, the shelf life of the
food product is greatly decreased.

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Function of Food Packaging
Containment – maintain its integrity during
the handling involved in filling, sealing,
processing, transportation, marketing, and
dispensing of food
Protection – prevents biological
contamination, oxidation, moisture
change, aroma loss or gain, and physical
damage.
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Function of Food Packaging
Communication – communicate product
quality and sell the product. Gives
information about the food, ingredients,
etc.
Preservation – establishing a barrier between
the product and the environment that
competes with man for the product.

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Requirement of Food Packaging
● Be easy to open
● Be nontoxic
● Provide resistance to physical damage

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Food Packaging Interaction
Interaction is the mass transfer phenomena
involving migration (from packaging material
to product), permeation (from the outside
environment to food contact environment
through packaging materials) and sorption
(adsorpotion/absorption of food components on
the packaging material), either in combination
or individually.
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Food Packaging Materials
Paper
Pulp is the raw material for the production of paper,
paperboard, corrugated board and similar manufactured
products.  It is obtained from plant fiber and is therefore a
renewable resource.  Today about 97 percent of the world's
paper and board is made from wood pulp, and about 85
percent of the wood pulp used in from spruces, firs and pines.
The main examples of paper and paperboard based packaging
are paper bags, wrapping, labels, folding cartons, multiwall
paper sacks, etc.

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Food Packaging Materials
Glass
Glass is primarily formed from oxides of metals, with the
most common being dioxide which is common sand. Glass is
made by mixing several naturally-occurring inorganic
compounds at a temperature above their melting points. The
glass package has a modern profile with distinct advantages,
including quality image, transparency, color, impermeability,
design potential, etc.

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Food Packaging Materials
Plastic
Plastic is an organic macromolecular compounds obtained by
polymerisation, polycondensation, polyaddition or any similar
process from molecules with a lower molecular weight or by
chemical alteration of natural macromolecular compounds.
Plastics are used in the packaging of food because they offer a
wide range of appearance and performance properties which
are derived from the inherent features of the individual plastic
material and how it is processed and used.

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Food Packaging Materials
Metal
Two basic types of alloyed metals are used in food packaging
i.e. steel and aluminum. Steel is used primarily to make rigid
cans, whereas aluminum is used to make cans as well as thin
aluminum foils and coatings. The metal materials used in food
packaging are aluminum, tinplate and electrolytic chromium-
coated steel (ECCS). Aluminum is used in the form of foil or
rigid metal.

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Food Packaging Methods
Aseptic packaging is a method in which food
is sterilized or commercially sterilized
outside of the can, usually in a continuous
process, and then aseptically placed in
previously sterilized containers which are
subsequently sealed in an aseptic
environment

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Food Packaging Methods
Modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) is a
procedure which involves replacing air inside
a package with a predetermined mixture of
gases prior to sealing it. Once the package is
sealed, no further control is exercised over
the composition of the in-package
atmosphere.

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Food Packaging Methods
Active packaging refers to the incorporation
of certain additives into packaging film or
within packaging containers with the aim of
maintaining and extending product shelf life.
Packaging may be termed active when it
performs some desired role in food
preservation other than providing an inert
barrier to external conditions.
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Environmental Impact
Modern food packaging provides a way to make food safe,
reliable, shelf-stable and clean. Unfortunately, most food
packaging is designed to be single use and is not recycled.
Instead, packaging is thrown away and often litters our
waterways. Because so much food packaging (especially
plastic) has ended up in waterways, the United Nations has
declared the plastic pollution of oceans “a planetary crisis.”
This is a problem not only for humanity, but for all aquatic
life. There are other environmental impacts from food
packaging as well, including to our air and soil.

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Role on Supply Chain
Packaging has a vital role to play in
containing and protecting food as it moves
through the supply chain to the consumer. It
already reduces food waste in transport and
storage, and innovations in packaging
materials, design and labelling provide new
opportunities to improve efficiencies

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