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Beefed-Up Meat Packaging Advances in Two Ways

Packaging Digest July 2023​ Packaging Column
Plastics Today July 2023​ Flexible Packaging Column

​Packaging Topic Brief:

  • A global meat packaging study  released in January 2023 by Future Market Insights predicts the market will grow 5.2% yearly from 2023 to exceed $12.3 billion by the end of 2033.
  • This content is related to food packaging, including:
  1. Global meat packaging, including beef, pork, and poultry – both fresh and frozen
  2. Two developments of interest to fresh meat processors–real-time “dashboard” air temperature monitoring systems used to assure cold chain integrity of packaged goods and findings from meat research using vacuum packaging technology
  3. End-to-End (E2E) cold chain logistics and indicator factors
  4. Winpak’s donation of Variovac Optimus OL0924 Auburn Technical specs like microbial or oxidative, kinetics of meat color and microbial growth; air around a pallet and the air within a tractor-trailer, Real-time time temperature recorders such as Sysco’s digital real-time ‘dashboard’ reporting; Vacuum packaging, heme iron in myoglobin, vacuum thermoform horizontal-form-fill-seal machine, barrier films, oxygen transfer rates.

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