Packaging for Better Food Security

February 2024​ Packaging Column

​Packaging Topic Brief:

• Packaging design & material science are stepping up to fight hunger! - discover how our industry can support safe, wholesome food worldwide. Packaging design and material science innovations are enabling a more food-secure population.
• Learn the role of food packaging in enabling food aid to reach those in need is complex.
• Shelf stable, nutritious, and sometimes calorie-dense food is needed by displaced persons.
• This requires advanced packaging and also packaging that can be disposed of without harming the local environment further (after a hurricane, etc.) damage.

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This content is related to food packaging, including:

1. Food insecurity & combined life cycle impact (LCI) 
2. Beta or a second-stage packaging system​
3. Includes programs and organizations like like Zero Hunger (Goal 2), United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), The World Food Programme (WFP)​, Waste Management Measuring, Reverse Logistics, Environmentally Sustainable Procurement and Transport, and Circular Economy (WREC)
4. infestation-proof laminated polypropylene (PP) woven bags including counterfeit-proof encoded woven PP strips
5. antioxidants to inhibit oxidation
6. Intelligent packaging to track temperature and humidity exposure
7. Waste-to-energy incineration 
   
8. Technical specs like ready-to-use supplementary food (RUSF) and ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) 535 kcal products; menstruation pads and shape-pliable RUSF and RUTF ;  Retort bags; polyethylene terephthalate (PET) 

Related  

• Value Chain Systems Solutions for Food Waste
  
• Leadership in Driving Research (Preventing Food Waste)
  
• Product and Process
  
• Directional Product, Process and Packaging LCAs
  
• Nexus of Health, Nutrients & Packaging 
• Food Safety - Track & Trace

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