Food Packaging: Principles and Practice, Third Edition

Description

This book presents an integrated approach to understanding the principles underlying food packaging and their applications. This edition includes new and expanded coverage of biobased packaging and bionanocomposites; nanotechnology applications, including nanoclays; metallization and atomic layer deposition; shelf life design, analysis, and estimation; safety and legislative aspects of packaging including public interest in food contact materials such as BPA and phthalates; life cycle assessment and sustainability. A new chapter addresses food packaging closures and sealing systems, including closures for plastic and composite containers and peelable seals.

• Author: Gordon L. Robertson
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Published: 2016-04-19
• Pages: 719
• ISBN-13: 9781439862421