Good packaging prevents waste and ensures that the food retains its desired quality throughout its shelf life.
Food packaging should be very light weight and low cost with significant strength compared to other packaging materials. Good oil and chemical resistance. Excellent gas and water vapor barrier properties.
Good packaging should contain foods (to hold the contents and keep them clean and secure without leakage or breakage until they are used). Packaging reduces total waste by extending the shelf-life of foods, thereby prolonging their usability.
It can protect foods against a range of hazards during distribution and storage (to provide a barrier to dirt, micro-organisms and other contaminants, and protection against damage caused by insects, birds and rodents, heat, oxidation, and moisture pickup or loss).
Food packaging can retard product deterioration, retain the beneficial effects of processing, extend shelf-life, and maintain or increase the quality and safety of food.
Food packaging enable the consumer to identify the food, and give instructions so that the food is stored and used correctly.
Characteristics of food packaging
