Food packaging materials : testing & quality assurance / edited by Preeti Singh, Ali Abas Wani, Horst-Christian Langowski. - 1 online resource (xii, 344 pages)

chapter 1 Introduction: Food Packaging Materials -- chapter 2 Shelf Life of Packed Food and Packaging Functionality -- chapter 3 Testing of Physical, Optical, Electrical, Thermal, and Rheological Properties for Plastic Packaging Materials -- chapter 4 Testing of Mechanical Properties for Plastic Packaging Materials -- chapter 5 Permeation Testing of Synthetic Polymers -- chapter 6 Testing Glass as a Food Packaging Material -- chapter 7 Metal Packaging: Testing and Quality Assurance -- chapter 8 Testing of Paper as Packaging Material for Food Industry -- chapter 9 Testing and Quality Assurance of Bioplastics -- chapter 10 Shock and Vibration Testing of Packaging Materials -- chapter 11 Testing Migration from Food Packaging Materials -- chapter 12 Food Package Testing Authorities and Regulations.

This book is arguably the first one focusing on packaging material testing and quality assurance. It provides information to help food scientists, polymer chemists, and packaging technologists find practical solutions to packaging defects and to develop innovative packaging materials for food products. Knowledge of packaging material testing procedures is extremely useful in the development of new packaging materials. Unique among books on packaging, this reference focuses on basic and practical approaches for testing packaging materials. --Provided by publisher.

9781315374390 9781466559950 9781315337739

10.1201/9781315374390 doi


Food--Packaging--Quality control.
Food containers.
Packaging--Testing.

TP374 / .F6534 2017

664.09 / F686