Packaging for Nonthermally & Minimally Processed Foods

Packaging technologies for use with nonthermally and minimally processed foods are a growing area of endeavor. Presentations at the 2005 IFT Annual Meeting + FOOD EXPO® provided pragmatic insights into the individual technologies and the present and potential connections among them.

• Ionizing Radiation. Sealed Air Cryovac's Charles Barmore, the country's leading expert on packaging for ionizing radiation processing, asserted that United States regulatory authorities have not accepted any new pac…