Intelligent Food Packaging Based on Natural Components and Biodegradable Polymers: From Basic Research to Industrial Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Within economic development, consumers' requirements for food quality and environmental friendliness have been escalating gradually. Intelligent food packaging made from natural components and biodegradable polymers, as an emerging technology in the field of food packaging, is not only green, environmentally friendly, and renewable but also introduces the real-time monitoring of changes in food freshness to the food supply system and conveys the status of food to producers, retailers, consumers, etc., promptly throughout the entire supply chain, which can effectively reduce the occurrence of food spoilage and safety issues. Intelligent food packaging is a new technology that combines one or more functions in multiple integrated technical fields such as physics, chemistry, and biology. Some intelligent food packaging not only monitors the freshness of food but also prolongs food shelf life, among other functions. In the future, intelligent food packaging will become an untapped industry in the food packaging market.

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Prof. Dr. Jia-Horng Lin
Dr. Jiangyu Zhu
Guest Editors

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