Active packaging film with functions of moisture-absorbing and antioxidant activity was developed based on poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) incorporated with green tea extract (GTE). The effects of GTE concentrations of 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, and 2% on the physical, structural, and antioxidant properties of PVA films were investigated. The PVA film containing 2% GTE had lower moisture absorbing efficiency relatively and better antioxidant activity through DPPH radical-scavenging ability experiment. A packaging system of GTE-incorporated PVA films was applied to package dried eel and quality of dried eel was evaluated during storage. The result showed that dried eel packed with GTE-incorporated PVA films showed lower weight change, peroxide value and TBARS value during storage than that packed without PVA films or with PVA films but no GTE. The PVA film containing 2% GTE showed the best quality protective effectiveness to prevent the dried eel from absorbing moisture and oxidizing of lipid. Practical applicationsPoly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) is a synthetic polymer that is widely used in packaging applications because of its excellent film forming, biodegradability, good mechanical, and gas barrier properties.The present study evidenced that the PVA films incorporated with GTE showed good quality protective effectiveness to prevent the dried eel packed with these films from absorbing moisture and oxidizing of lipid. This active packaging film could be used as inner layer or intermediate layer in the composite packaging film system to improve the storage quality of moisture-sensitive and high-fat food. Based on this concept, the moisture-absorbing agents and antioxidant can be incorporated into the packaging structures to develop an active multifunctional food packaging material potentially to remove or reduce moisture inside the food packaging system instead of desiccants and preservative added in the food.

The Flexible Intermediate Bulk Container (FIBC) is a flexible transportation packaging container that is weaved by polyolefin plastic ribbon-like filament, which is widely used in the storage and transportation of granular and powder materials. When the FIBC was affected by environment factors synthetically under using, such as light, heat and air etc, it would come into degradation and its mechanical properties reduced. In this study, the basic mechanical properties of polypropylene FIBC base material were tested by tensile experiment and the reason of main base material mechanical properties difference between theoretical value and experimental value was analyzed. Based on the FIBC different using environments, the natural exposure experiment and high/low temperature experiments were carried out, we took tensile strength holding ratio and elongation holding ratio as evaluating indicator and analyzed law of influence of the different experiment condition on base material mechanical properties, which provided valuable reference for FIBC designing and manufacturing. Along with the experiment time increased, the color of base material changed from milk white to yellow slowly, the tensile strength and elongation reduced, the influencing grade was as follow: natural exposure>high temperature>low temperature. The results of natural exposure experiment showed that there was difference of anti-aging performance among the FIBC base material, the mechanical properties of woof fabric and belt reduced evidently, while others reduced slowly. For high (45°C)/low (-25°C) temperature experiments, the reduction of FIBC base materials mechanical properties were not obvious and woof fabric reduced a little faster comparatively.