Monitoring the quality of raw poultry by detecting hydrogen sulfide with printed sensors

Transformation of food packaging from passive to innovative via nanotechnology: concepts and critiques

“…These systems can be developed with the perspectives of managing food safety for compromised products, to smoothen judgments and decision-making processes, supplement to food safety and quality management systems, endowed with biosecurity information and alerts to end-users on any possible problem (Wanihsuksombat et al 2010). The revolution in food industry and especially the capability in traceability and tracking of food products are anticipated to safeguard the public health and food safety globally (Koskela et al 2015). This can be done in connection to changes in temperature (Wanihsuksombat et al 2010), relative humidity (RH), pH and volatile compounds (Qin et al 2012;Rukchon et al 2014) to qualify the product authenticity in food supply system (Neethirajan and Jayas 2011).…”

“…Integration of nano-based communication devices such as RFID tags and barcode with wireless sensors in packaging materials could be the transformative force of packaging technology and food supply chain (Biji et al 2015;Koskela et al 2015;Sarapulova et al 2015). These devices can be used to provide assurances tamper proof (Realini and Marcos 2014), product authenticity, detecting, sensing, anti-theft, anti-counterfeiting (Dobrucka and Cierpiszewski 2014) and product traceability (Dasgupta et al 2015;Feng et al 2015;Neethirajan and Jayas 2011;Puligundla et al 2012).…”

“…These devices can be used to provide assurances tamper proof (Realini and Marcos 2014), product authenticity, detecting, sensing, anti-theft, anti-counterfeiting (Dobrucka and Cierpiszewski 2014) and product traceability (Dasgupta et al 2015;Feng et al 2015;Neethirajan and Jayas 2011;Puligundla et al 2012). Feng et al (2015) assembled a chipless and wireless RFID sensor tag comprising two planar inductor-capacitor resonators to monitor the RH and identify the short-range items via inductive-coupling for paper packaging (Koskela et al 2015). The constructed RFID tangs showed excellent sensitivity to RH at the ranges of 20 and 70 %.…”

“…Innovative packaging focuses on one or more of the following pillars: improving the quality, safety and shelf-life extension of foods (Realini and Marcos 2014), production of less expensive packaging materials (Wu et al 2015a), reduced processing labor, produce convenience food products, reduced use of preservatives in food formulations and monitoring food quality in supply chain (Bastarrachea et al 2011;De Jong et al 2005). Then, innovative food packaging systems would interact with human demand as food producers and handlers, food processors and packers, distributors, business-persons, consumers to policy-makers, in order to address the issues pertaining food processing, postharvest losses and food security (Koskela et al 2015;Rukchon et al 2014).…”

“…This allows effective food preservation and prolonged shelf life of foods by retarding microbial growth and extending their lag phase leading to improved safety and quality of food products (Biji et al 2015;De Jong et al 2005). Therefore, the practice is significant for preventing the post-processing contamination and spoilage of foods (Bastarrachea et al 2011;Imran et al 2010;Koskela et al 2015;Wen et al 2016).…”