Portable & Smart Packing system with quality check framework
Abstract : Changes in consumer preference for safe food have led to innovations in packaging technologies. This article reviews about different smart packaging systems and their applications in food packaging, packaging research with latest innovations. Active and intelligent packing are such packaging technologies which offer to deliver safer and quality products. Active packaging refers to the incorporation of additives into the package with the aim of maintaining or extending the product quality and shelf life. The intelligent systems are those that monitor the condition of packaged food to give information regarding the quality of the packaged food during transportation and storage. These technologies are designed to the increasing demand for safer foods with better shelf life. The market for active and intelligent packaging systems is expected to have a promising future by their integration into packaging materials or systems.
? Such networks are a set of nodes of nanosensors dynamically self organizing necessarily in a wireless network with possible use in any pre existing infrastructure.
? These networks are at an early stage of research and development; an example of this is the limitations that exist in the nano communication and the nano batteries.
? Existing internet technologies are plagued by cybersecurity and data privacy issues that may present major challenges.
? It causes yellowing of vegetables, russet spotting on lettuce and has detrimental impact on shelf life of many fruits and vegetables.
? The disadvantages of freshness indicator on colour changes are colour changes indicating contamination can occur in products free from any significant sensory or quality deterioration.
? Disadvantage of such system is that the device should be highly sensitive and the residual oxygen in the package are susceptible to indicators.
• The main purpose of packaging is to protect a product against deteriorative effects caused by exposer to and usage in the external environment.
• To prevent the product from leaking or breaking, and to protect it against possible contaminations.
• To communicate important information about the contained food product and its nutritional content and to provide cooking instructions.
? Antimicrobial edible coatings and films prepared from polysaccharides, proteins and lipids have variety of advantages like biodegradability, edibility, biocompatibility, aesthetic appearance, barrier properties etc.
? It also helps to identify processes that strongly affect the quality attributes and efficiently improve the final food quality.
? The package is used to protect the product from the deteriorative effects of external environmental conditionals like heat, light, presence or absence of moisture, pressure, microorganisms, gaseous emissions and so on.
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