Active Packaging for food applications

16.03.2011 - 30.06.2013

Research funding project

Active Packaging for food is becoming a more and more important trend in industry. In any case the aim is to keep a good quality of the food for a longer period of time (i.e. to extend the ¿shelf-life¿ of the products). Several different systems have been tried out since the end of the last century, beginning in Japan, but more and more also in Europe and elsewhere: Ethylen or oxygen scavengers, CO2 ¿ emitters, compounds that remove unwanted substances from the foodstuff itself, and many others. This project focuses on the fabrication of masterbatches with natural antimicrobial additive in the release mechanism, which corresponds to a low-cost alternative for such applications. One of the challenges is that the film for food applications has to remain transparent. Besides studies on the physical properties of the films the migrational behavior of the compounds present in the polymer will be tested as well as the growth of microorganisms coming into contact with the materials.

People

Institute

E308 - Institute of Materials Science and Technology

Contract/collaboration

Mondi Packaging R&D Centre GmbH

Grant funds

FFG - Österr. Forschungsförderungs- gesellschaft mbH (National) Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)

Research focus

Non-metallic Materials: 70%
Materials Characterization: 30%

Keywords

German	English
Aktive Verpackungen	active packaging
Lebensmittelfolien	food packaging
antimikrobiell wirkende Additive	antimicrobial additive

External partner

Mondi Korneuburg GmbH
Inst. f. Verfahrenstechnik, Umwelttechnik und Techn. Biowissenschaften

Publications

Publications