This book is arguably the first one focusing on packaging material testing and quality assurance. Food Packaging Materials: Testing & Quality Assurance 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.A variety of packaging materials and technologies are being used, with glass, paper, metal, and plastics as the most important groups of materials. Material properties such as mechanical and other physical properties, permeability, sealing, and migration of substances upon food contact are determining factors for food quality, shelf life, and food safety. Therefore, food packaging materials have to be tested to ensure that they have correct properties in terms of permeability for gases, water vapor, and contaminants; of mechanical and other physical properties; and of the thickness of main components and coating layers.This book has been designed to shed light on food packaging material testing in view of packaging integrity, shelf life of products, and conformity with current regulations. This comprehensive book, written by a team of specialists in the specific areas of food packaging, package testing, and food contact regulations, deals with the problems in a series of well-defined chapters. It covers the relations between packaging properties and shelf life of products and describes testing methods for plastics, metal, glass, and paper, including the areas of vibration, permeation, and migration tests. It will be of benefit for students, scientists, and professionals in the area of food packaging.
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PrefaceEditorsContributorsChapter 1 Introduction: Food Packaging MaterialsAli Abas Wani, Preeti Singh, and Horst-Christian LangowskiChapter 2 Shelf Life of Packed Food and Packaging FunctionalityHorst-Christian LangowskiChapter 3 Testing of Physical, Optical, Electrical, Thermal, and Rheological Properties for Plastic Packaging MaterialsYoung T. Kim, Hezhong Wang, and Byungjin MinChapter 4 Testing of Mechanical Properties for Plastic Packaging MaterialsLaszlo Horvath, Byungjin Min, and Young T. KimChapter 5 Permeation Testing of Synthetic PolymersAyman Abdellatief and Bruce WeltChapter 6 Testing Glass as a Food Packaging MaterialKhalid Gul, Haroon Maqbool Wani, Preeti Singh, Idrees Ahmed Wani, and Ali Abas WaniChapter 7 Metal Packaging: Testing and Quality AssuranceHeinz Grossjohann, Alex Grossjohann, Thomas Duve, and Maura MarcksChapter 8 Testing of Paper as Packaging Material for Food IndustryShabir Ahmad Mir, Haroon Maqbool Wani, Idrees Ahmed Wani, Preeti Singh, and Ali Abas WaniChapter 9 Testing and Quality Assurance of BioplasticsManzoor Ahmad Shah, Markus Schmid, Ankit Aggarwal, and Ali Abas WaniChapter 10 Shock and Vibration Testing of Packaging MaterialsRobert Meisner and Dennis YoungChapter 11 Testing Migration from Food Packaging MaterialsAnnika Ebert, Roland Franz, Carina Gehring, Diana Kemmer, and Frank WelleChapter 12 Food Package Testing Authorities and RegulationsAngela Störmer and Keun Taik LeeIndex
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781466559943
Publisert
2017-06-14
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Vendor
CRC Press Inc
Vekt
820 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
344