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3.5 QUALITY AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Smart packages: active and intelligent packages
The active packages act on the product or
the package headspace to extend shelf life and the
microbiological safety of foods and beverages. The
active ingredient may be associated to the intrinsic
characteristics of the polymers of what it is made or
from additives incorporated into plastics, paper, metal
or combinations of these materials.
These are examples of active packages: oxygen,
CO
2
and ethylene absorbers; humidity absorbers/
controllers; odor absorbers; cholesterol removers;
ethanol, CO
2
, SO
2
, and scents emitters; antimicrobials,
antioxidants packages, self-heating and self-cooling
packages.
FIGURE 3.6
Active packages examples
Oxygen absorbers
Liquid absorbers, with possibility of antitheft
system aggregation
Ethylene absorbers
Antimicrobial package: SO
2
emitter
Self-heating package
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