This course provides the fundamentals as well as the most recent developments in food packaging including non-biodegradable, semi-biodegradable and biodegradable packaging materials, intelligent and active packaging, controlled and modified atmospheric packaging, sensors used in packaging, logistics and tracking and systems used to print on packaging.
Analytical aspects such as shelf-life prediction, and calculation of vapour and gas permeability, tensile strength, elongation and elastic modulus of some representative packaging will be emphasised.