Antimicrobial Packaging Shows Promise For Food Safety

By Arpita Mukherjee, Industry Analyst, Technical Insights, Frost & Sullivan

When it comes to post-processing food safety, antimicrobial packaging is an effective method to improve safety and shelf life of food products. This also offers a great platform to boost consumer confidence, as people make purchasing decisions for different food items.

Antimicrobial packaging is a special type of active packaging that ensures three crucial points for healthy eating:

• Extends shelf life
• Improves food safety
• Improves sensory properties

Many of food products, including meat, dairy, poultry, vegetables, and fruits are perishable by nature, requiring special protection from bacterial spoilage during their preparation, storage, and distribution. Microbial growth is one of the major concerns in post-processed food products affecting flavor, color, odor, and other textural properties of foods, causing serious foodborne illnesses.

Recent innovations in antimicrobial technologies enabling food safety hold the potential to dramatically change the way the industry combats food safety issues. This has been also envisioned as one the most useful weapons to prevent food recalls.

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