A sealed pack of diced pork from Tesco. It shows the cooking time, number of servings, 'display until' date, 'use by' date, weight in kg, price, price to weight ratio in both £/kg and £/lb, freezing and storage instructions. It says 'Less than 3% Fat' and 'No Carbs per serving' and includes a barcode. The Union Flag, British Farm Standard tractor logo, and British Meat Quality Standard logo imply that it is British pork.

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Food packaging's functions

Food packaging's functions are as diverse as they are important. They are broken down as follows. Packaging is the enclosing of a physical object, typically a product that will be offered for sale. ...

1. Containment: For items that are granulated, paper-based packages are the best with a sealing system to prevent moisture infiltration of the product. Other products are packaged using metal cans, plastic bags and bottles, and glass. Another factor in containment is packaging durability, meaning the packaged food has to survive transport from the packaging at the food processing facility to the supermarket to the home for the consumer.
2. Protection: The packaging must protect the food from biological agents in rats, insects, and microbes; from mechanical damage such as product abrasion, compressive forces, and vibration; and from chemical degradation such as oxidation, moisture transfer, and ultraviolet light.
3. Communication: Packaged food must be identified for consumer use mainly with label text and graphics. It can also be shown with the food package's shape such as the Coca-Cola bottle or the can of Spam. Other well known food package shapes include the potato chip bags and milk bottles. These packages also detail nutritional information, if they are kosher or halal-approved, manufacturer, product size (volume or weight-based), and the Universal Product Code (UPC).
4. Functionality: That the package is easy to use for both manufacturers and consumers. These products can be purchased all at once such as frozen pizza or as part of a larger package such as a twelve pack of beer. Another use may be to see if the package can go through a microwave process such as a TV dinner. Other items included pour spouts already on the bottles are other methods to ease dispensing of the product.
5. Environmental issues: This means that we must be done to reuse the packaging, reducing the size of the packaging, and then recycling of the products to be remanufactured.
6. Package safety: That the package be used for safety of the food from the package or vice versa. This includes any metal contamination issues from a can to the food product or any plastic contamination from a bottle to a food product as well.

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Food packaging types

The above materials are fashioned into different types of food packages and containers such as:

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There are also special containers that combine different technologies for maximum durability:

• Bags-In-Boxes (used for soft drink syrup, other liquid products, and meat products)
• Wine box (used for wine)

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Packaging machines

A choice of packaging machinery includes, technical capabilities, labor requirements, worker safety, maintainability, serviceability, reliability, ability to integrate into the packaging line, capital cost, floorspace, flexibility (change-over, materials, etc.), energy usage, quality of outgoing packages, qualifications (for food, phamaceuticals, etc.), throughput, efficiency, productivity, ergonomics, etc. In telecommunication, the term maintainability has the following meanings: A characteristic of design and installation, expressed as the probability that an item will be retained in or restored to a specified condition within a given period of time, when the maintenance is performed in accordance with prescribed procedures and resources. ... Reliability concerns quality or consistency. ... For the Talib Kweli album Quality (album) Quality can refer to a. ... Ergonomics (or human factors) is the application of scientific information concerning humans to the design of objects, systems and environment for human use (definition adopted by the International Ergonomics Association in 2007). ...

Packaging machines may be of the following general types:

• Blister, Skin and Vacuum Packaging Machines
• Capping, Over-Capping, Lidding, Closing, Seaming and Sealing Machines
• Cartoning Machines
• Case and Tray Forming, Packing, Unpacking, Closing and Sealing Machines
• Cleaning, Sterilizing, Cooling and Drying Machines
• Conveying, Accumulating and Related Machines
• Feeding, Orienting, Placing and Related Machines
• Filling Machines: handling liquid and powdered products
• Package Filling and Closing Machines
• Form, Fill and Seal Machines
• Inspecting, Detecting and Checkweighing Machines
• Palletizing, Depalletizing, Pallet Unitizing and Related Machines
• Product Identification: labelling, marking, etc.
• Wrapping Machines
• Converting Machines
• Other speciality machinery

See also

• Cold chain
• Packaging engineering
• Packaging and labelling
• Logistics
• Mandatory labelling
• Glass Container Industry
• Containerization
• Freight
• Distribution
• Food labelling Regulations
• Flexography

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References

• Barron, F.H. and J.D. Burcham. (2003). "Glass Containers." In Encyclopedia of Agricultural, Food, and Biological Engineering. D.R. Heldman, Ed. New York: Marcel Dekker. pp. 436-439.
• Barron, F.H. and J.D. Burcham. (2003). "Metal Containers." In Encyclopedia of Agricultural, Food, and Biological Engineering. D.R. Heldman, Ed. New York: Marcel Dekker. pp. 636-642.
• Bourque, R.A. (2003). "Secondary Packaging." In Encyclopedia of Agricultural, Food, and Biological Engineering. D.R. Heldman, Ed. New York: Marcel Dekker. pp. 873-879.
• Chinnan, M.S. and D.S. Cha. (2003). "Primary Packaging." In Encyclopedia of Agricultural, Food, and Biological Engineering. D.R. Heldman, Ed. New York: Marcel Dekker. pp. 781-784.
• Hanlon, J.F., R.J. Kelsey, and H.E. Forcinio. (1998). Handbook of Package engineering, Third Edition. Lancaster, PA: Technomic Publishing.
• Potter, N.N. and J.H. Hotchkiss. (1995). Food Science, Fifth Edition. New York: Chapman & Hall. pp. 478-513.
• Steven, M.D. and J.H. Hotchkiss. (2003). "Package Functions." In Encyclopedia of Agricultural, Food, and Biological Engineering. D.R. Heldman, Ed. New York: Marcel Dekker. pp. 716-719.

External links

• Institute of Food Technologists Food Packaging Division
• Institute of Packaging Professionals Food and Beverage Packaging Task Force