Active and intelligent packaging：活性和智能包装.pptVIP

Active and intelligent packaging Why Use packaging at all? Why use packaging? What do beer, fruit and prepacked sandwiches have in common? The answer is that scientists are working to improve the quality or safety of all these products by developing active or intelligent packaging for them. It might seem hard to believe that a piece of plastic packaging could be either active or intelligent. You are going to consider why we use packaging and learn about how scientists are working to make it more efficient. Supermarkets Write a list of 10 good reasons why packaging is used For many of the things in your list, the packaging currently available will be completely adequate. What else might it be useful for a package to do? Write a list of things that a supermarket or a customer might like a food package to be able to do. Be creative and imaginative. There are already examples of packets for food that do more than just keep the product in one place and stop it getting all over your other shopping. They can control and even react to things taking place inside them. This is called active packaging. For some years now, it has been possible to get cans which heat or cool themselves. You can also buy a can of beer with a ‘widget’ in it that ensures a perfect head forms on the drink. The widget is a ball containing nitrogen gas at high pressure. When the ring-pull on the can is pulled, the pressure inside goes down so the nitrogen in the widget comes out and quickly mixes with the drink, causing it to foam and bubble as it is poured out. Active packaging Why do you think more drinks (cappuccinos or milkshakes, for example) are not sold with a widget? The widget does not need to be active for very long because the problem it is solving is only an issue for a short amount of time (as the drink is poured out). Some food products raise problems that need to be dealt with over a longer period of time and scientists aim to solve these by developing packaging that can activel