Food Packaging Materials

Preeti Singh has obtained her master’s degree (food technology) and PhD (dairytechnology) from leading institutions in India. She has worked as a scientist at DefenceFood Research Laboratory in Mysore, India, for 2 years. In 2008, she joined the chair ofFood Packaging Technology, Technical University of Munich (TUM), as a researchscientist. Later, she joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Food Process Engineering and Packaging IVV, Freising, Germany. She has been actively publishing on food packa-ging, contributing 28 international papers and 15 technical papers, and is currentlycoeditor of two forthcoming books on packaging. She is also managing editor ofFood Packaging & Shelf Life, published by Elsevier Science, UK. Ali Abas Wani is a senior researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engi-neering and Packaging, Freising, Germany. Born and educated in India, hereceived his master’s degree (food technology) and PhD (food technology)from leading Indian universities. Since 2006, he has been a senior assistant pro-fessor at the Islamic University of Science and Technology, Awantipora, India,where he was responsible for establishing the Department of Food Technologyand also initiated several key food science programs in the region. Additionally,he is establishing a food testing center at the Islamic University of Science and Tech-nology, Awantipora. Dr. Wani is also a cochair for the European Hygienic Engineer-ing Design Group (EHEDG) representing the Indian regional section. He is thecofounder and editor-in-chief ofFood Packaging & Shelf Life, published by ElsevierScience, UK. Dr. Wani has published numerous international papers, book chapters,coedited books, and conference papers. His research focus is on the development offunctional ingredients and measurement of foodquality. In addition to close associa-tionwithmanyscientific organizations in the area of food science and technology, heis an active reviewer forCarbohydrate  Polymers,Food  Chemistry,LWT–FoodScience  and  Technology,Journal  of  Agricultural  Food  Chemistry, and many otherscientific journals of repute. Horst-Christian Langowski is a professor and the chair of Food Packaging Tech-nology, Dean of Studies, at the TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan,Technical University of Munich (TUM), andthe director of the Fraunhofer Institutefor Process Engineering and Packaging, Fraunhofer IVV, Freising, Germany.He received his diploma degree in physics in 1980 and PhD in 1989, both fromthe University of Hannover, Germany. He worked with the Philips Group from1981 to 1991 as a development engineerand project manager before joiningFraunhofer IVV in 1991. Since then, he has been deeply involved in food packagingand shelf-life research at both TUM and Fraunhofer IVV. Professor Langowski hasreceived numerous research grants and presented his work at several internationalconferences. He has published many research papers, technical papers, patents, andbook chapters, and has supervised many master’s and doctoral theses. Among other functions, he is a member of the management board of the BayerischeStaatsbrauerei Weihenstephan and a member of the advisory board of the groupon extrusion technology within the Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (VDI). He isalso the cofounder and editor-in-chief ofFood Packaging and Shelf Life,whichis published by Elsevier Science, UK.

Preface

Editors

Contributors

Chapter 1 Introduction: Food Packaging Materials

Ali Abas Wani, Preeti Singh, and Horst-Christian Langowski

Chapter 2 Shelf Life of Packed Food and Packaging Functionality

Horst-Christian Langowski

Chapter 3 Testing of Physical, Optical, Electrical, Thermal, and Rheological Properties for Plastic Packaging Materials

Young T. Kim, Hezhong Wang, and Byungjin Min

Chapter 4 Testing of Mechanical Properties for Plastic Packaging Materials

Laszlo Horvath, Byungjin Min, and Young T. Kim

Chapter 5 Permeation Testing of Synthetic Polymers

Ayman Abdellatief and Bruce Welt

Chapter 6 Testing Glass as a Food Packaging Material

Khalid Gul, Haroon Maqbool Wani, Preeti Singh, Idrees Ahmed Wani, and Ali Abas Wani

Chapter 7 Metal Packaging: Testing and Quality Assurance

Heinz Grossjohann, Alex Grossjohann, Thomas Duve, and Maura Marcks

Chapter 8 Testing of Paper as Packaging Material for Food Industry

Shabir Ahmad Mir, Haroon Maqbool Wani, Idrees Ahmed Wani, Preeti Singh, and Ali Abas Wani

Chapter 9 Testing and Quality Assurance of Bioplastics

Manzoor Ahmad Shah, Markus Schmid, Ankit Aggarwal, and Ali Abas Wani

Chapter 10 Shock and Vibration Testing of Packaging Materials

Robert Meisner and Dennis Young

Chapter 11 Testing Migration from Food Packaging Materials

Annika Ebert, Roland Franz, Carina Gehring, Diana Kemmer, and Frank Welle

Chapter 12 Food Package Testing Authorities and Regulations

Angela Störmer and Keun Taik Lee

Index