Toward Smart(er) Fresh Meat Packaging

IFT July 2023​ Packaging Column

​Packaging Topic Brief:

  • Understand the role of temperature monitoring of the cold chain in meat safety and quality.
  • Learn the impact of vacuum packaging different barrier variables on meat shelf life.
  • Appreciate how value chain partners, suppliers, and universities can work together to achieve shared value.
  • This content is related to food packaging, including:
  1. Global meat packaging, including beef, pork, and poultry – both fresh and frozen
  2. Sustainable packaging that preserves food safety and quality attributes
  3. Cold chain logistics and indicator factors like real-time “dashboard” air temperature monitoring systems and supply chain temperature compliance indicators that allow predictive analytics and supply chain resilience
  4. Intelligent packaging solutions
  5. Technical specs like overwrapped polystyrene trays, chubs, butcher paper wraps, pouches, and vacuum-packaged “brick” packs/ packaging; barrier films; vacuum packaging technology; sensors & kinetics of degradative bacteria and oxidation; microbial and oxidative reactions; myoglobin denatured/ lipid oxidation

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