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Chapter 6 focuses on the applications of polymers in food packaging and protection that include polymeric traditional packaging, polymeric coatings in metal-can food packaging, polymeric biodegradable and preservative food packaging, polymeric active packaging, and modified atmospheric and smart food packaging. Traditionally, food packages are used to provide protection for the food products and designed to retard or delay the undesirable effects of the physical, chemical, biological, and environmental factors that extend shelf life and food quality by keeping the food contents clean, fresh, and safe to aid consumers in using the nutritional contents of the food products. Their primary role in food safety is preservation and protection from external contamination, maintenance of food quality, and increase shelf life. They protect foods from the influences of environment effects such as light, heat, oxygen, moisture, enzymes, microorganisms, insects, dust, gaseous emission, and pressure, which lead to the deterioration of food products. Food packages are labeled to show required information on the nutrition of the food content and to communicate the consumer how to use, transport, recycle, or dispose the package, as well as the nature of the deterioration of the product and any subsequent health problems if food is consumed beyond expiry date due to the potential serious nature of consumption of pathogens

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Akelah, A. (2013). Polymers in Food Packaging and Protection. In: Functionalized Polymeric Materials in Agriculture and the Food Industry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7061-8_6

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