Enhancing Food Safety With Packaging

The principal objective of food packaging is protection from the adverse effects of a perpetually hostile environment throughout the distribution system. Protection is usually achieved by erecting a barrier between the exterior and the interior, where the food is ensconced. In basic food packaging parlance, almost all food is sensitive to the effects of oxygen, light, moisture, temperature, and critters ranging from mammals to microorganisms. Food scientists and technologists apply their efforts…