Package Design Assignment 2022

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PACKAGE DESIGN
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Intelligent packaging for monitoring of food products
The trend for sustainability, standards of high quality and improved safety of products are
essential in life science’s all areas. In order for satisfying such requirements, there is use of
intelligent packaging in sector of food. Such systems could permanently monitor product’s
quality status as well as share information with customer. In such process, wastage of food could
be reduced as well as satisfaction of customer could be optimized (Ghaani et al. 2016). By
depending on product, several kinds of technologies for intelligent packaging are used. As of
now, these technologies are not widespread, however potential of these technologies are known
already.
The products are separated from external environment through packaging. There are four
general basic functions for packaging such as protection, communication, containment and
convenience. This communicates with consumers through graphics or written text as well as
simplifies contained products’ handling with the practical features like microwave ability or
reclose ability. Packaging offers differently sized and shaped containers as well as adapts to
lifestyle of customers. Additionally, to improved distribution and marketing, packaging slows the
quality decay also. This is reason for their significant contribution for safe delivery as well as
packaged food’s preservation. However, quality loss’s complete elimination is impossible. High
perishable foods’ intrinsic properties alter after processing (Poyatos-Racionero et al. 2018). It
could lead in increment in quality, depending on contents of biological, physical, chemical or
package occur that lead to product’s spoilage ultimately. Such changes are difficult for assessing
by consumers. For fear of groceries being getting spoiled, several consumers throw away
products that would be appropriate for consumption. Small deviation often from norm,
consistency before the date leads in products being end up in bin.

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For reducing unintentional waste of products, concept of intelligent packaging might be
utilized. However, it is not advantage which is provoked by such technologies. Products’
chemical and microbiological tests are performed regularly at level of company during the
production as well as before delivery. However, in several cases, no control is there after being
delivered to supermarket. The intelligent packaging would close the gap as these could monitor
as well as display status of quality from manufacturing point to customer. The permanent
monitoring minimizes unnecessary waste of foods as well as protects consumers also poisoning
of food, improves traceability and maximizes food industries’ efficiency (Fuertes et al. 2016).
Preserving quality of food is important area for research also, as this is directly related to global
aim for improving our lives’ quality. There is consumers’ growing demand due safety as well as
quality properties. Such issues are dependent highly on applied materials of packaging. There is
potential of intelligent packaging in improving safety of the product, reduce the environmental
impact as well as increase packaged product’s attractiveness and of food companies.
Materials of intelligent packaging could be termed as materials which monitors food’s
condition that is packed or food’s environment surrounding. They have ability in communicating
packaged product’s conditions, however they don’t interact with product. Aim of intelligent
packaging is monitoring product as well as transmit information to customers. It could be
information of package’s condition as well as its contents, storage conditions as manufacturing
time. Depending if this is reactive or simple intelligent packaging, it could be placed over
primary, tertiary or secondary packaging. Intelligent packaging could be used in commercial
purposes, the legal requirements should be fulfilled (Janjarasskul and Suppakul 2018). Three
major technologies are there that are used in systems of intelligent packaging: data carriers,
sensors and indicators. Intelligent packaging monitors conditions that could lead in changes in

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food’s quality characteristics. Few examples of such kinds of indicator of time temperature,
humidity sensors and indicators of gas leakage. Depending on monitoring factors, the systems
could be placed inside or outside packaging. Quality characteristics indicator is used to directly
monitor food’s quality attributes. Examples are freshness indicators and bio sensors. Such
devices are located inside packaging. There is use of data carriers for storing as well as
transmitting data, while sensors and indicators are used for monitoring external environment as
well as displaying information afterward.
Data carriers used for making information flow more efficiently in supply chain. Data
carriers’ function is not monitoring products’ quality, but for guarantying automatization,
traceability, counterfeit protection or theft protection. For ensuring it, it is role of data carriers of
data carriers is to store as well as transmit information of distribution, storage and all other
parameters (Sohail, Sun and Zhu 2018). Hence, these are placed often on the tertiary packaging.
Data carriers which are mostly used are Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags and barcode
levels.
Barcodes are easy for using, cheap as well as are used widely for facilitating checkout,
stock recording or inventory control. Barcodes could be divided in one dimensional as well as
two dimensional. Depending on type, there are several storage capacities for them. One
dimensional barcode is the pattern of the bars and parallel spaces. Different arrangement for gaps
as well as bars results in data coding (Matindoust et al. 2016). Barcode scanner as well as
associated system could translate coded information. More capacity of memory is offered by two
dimensional barcodes as combination of spaces and dots in matrix or in array. Great convenience
is provided by this for consumers and retailers. QR codes are example of two dimensional
barcodes.