Active and Intelligent Packaging of Cheese: Developments and Future Scope

Abstract

Technological advances and changes in consumer preferences for safer food with better shelf life have led to packaging innovations like smart packaging. Smart packaging systems involve the blend of active and intelligent packaging properties. Most of the smart packaging systems in food sector are mainly focused on fish, sea, food, meat, poultry, fruits and vegetables. With cheese being the major dairy product and its market expanding exponentially, smart packaging systems for cheese are exhaustively addressed in this book chapter. Some of the smart packaging systems pertaining to cheese like antioxidant releasers, antimicrobial packaging, ripening indicator and self-cleaning rinds can hasten commercial acceptance and reliability of cheese products. This book chapter also tabulates the recent data related to production, and consumption of cheese, permitted additives, types of active and intelligent packaging systems explored for cheese and commercial suppliers of smart packaging systems. Along with, future research directions for smart packaging of cheese are also presented.

The Ideas of Sustainable and Green Marketing Based on the Internet of Everything—The Case of the Dairy Industry

“…Looking at the scientific databases, with keywords of "sustainable marketing" or "green marketing" and "food" or "dairy" and "Internet of Things", proved that even its usefulness is not addressed by the researchers. The most similar to the current issue were two studies about blockchain technology in agri-food supply chains [83] and sustainable technologies in agri-food 4.0 [84], and some more, but only in the area of smart packaging, specifically in the dairy industry [58,85,86]. Therefore, it is worth discussing how to improve supply chain management methods and concepts by using IoT and IoE solutions.…”

“…According to the chosen research method, this study is exploratory and descriptive [57]. The reason for choosing FMCG industries, specifically the dairy industry, was due to the daily use of products, the vital role of products in people's everyday lives, and the short lifecycle of products and short shelf life [58]. The other cause of the interesting nature of this industry was its high vulnerability to the changes initiated by the COVID-19 pandemic [59], which resulted from the specifics of the products offered.…”

A conceptual model for food industry views on the commercialisation of active and intelligent packaging

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“…However, over the intervening years, there have only been a few examples of adopting AIP at the consumer level. In 2019, the AIP market was estimated to be worth $17.50 billion (US$), with a suggested CAGR (compounding annual growth rate) of 6.78% 18 . However, in 2021/2022, AIP only made up 2.5% of the US$700 billion global packaging industry worth, with a CAGR of 5.1% 19 .…”

Electrospun Smart Oxygen Indicating Tag for Modified Atmosphere Packaging Applications: Fabrication, Characterization and Storage Stability

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