Food packaging

About The principal purpose of food packaging 

The principal purpose of food packaging continues to be maintaining the safety, wholesomeness, and quality of food. The key packaging materials are glass, metal, plastics, paper, laminates, co-extrusion and bio-degradable polymers, However there is a shift in demand which makes laminates and co-extrusion the finest among all. The major segments of packaging industry are flexible packaging, folding cartons, corrugated boards and boxes, labels, shrink sleeves and wrappings and glass bottles. While the concept of sustainable packaging like green polyethylene is also prevailing, which is a plastic produced from ethanol sugarcane, a renewable raw material. These sustainable packages are derived from food, which create the problem of competing with the food resources in future.

Packaging is the science, art and technology of enclosing or protecting products for distribution, storage, sale, and use. Packaging has its own importance in business as it allows the products to be transferred from the manufacturing plants to the customers

The primary purpose of food packaging must continue to be maintaining the safety, wholesomeness, and quality of food. Historically, package design was a task centered on specifying, an often pre-conceived package, with the primary goal of achieving compatibility with the filling and sealing operations. Thus the packaging has been used to:

• Protect the product/ finished good
• Distribution of product
• Store the product
• Carry nutritional information
• Present the products to consumers.