Active and Intelligent Packaging

Chemical migration from active and intelligent packaging materials 371... 

The results of the investigation contributed to the revision of framework Directive 89/109/EEC on food contact materials. In the new Eramework Regulation (EC) No. 1935/2004 the use of active and intelligent packaging systems is now included. 

Finally the draft regulation requires that active and intelligent packagings are suitable and effective for the intended purpose and that the active and intelligent components are authorised. Authorisation will be granted after a positive opinion of the EFSA and will be valid only to the applicant for an authorisation. The authorisation will be valid for a period of ten years and may be renewed for another period of ten years. The authorisation will be published in a Decision to the applicant. In addition the active and intelligent components will be inserted in a list of authorised components. 

EEC ° as last amended by Directive 97/48/EC sets requirements (time temperature conditions, selection of simulants) for testing of plastic materials and articles with food simulants. Directive 85/572/EEC indicates the simulants that shall be used for specified foods or groups of foods. See Chapter 5 for further details on these controls. Regulation of chemical migration from plastics into food and drink has developed over many years. EU regulatory control of active and intelligent packaging will therefore have to fit in with this well-established system of controls. 

Chemical migration and food contact materials 17.4.2 Active and intelligent packaging... 

Many forms of active and intelligent packaging, not used as primary packaging, are designed to have little or no contact with food. For instance, an oxygen absorber, based on iron oxide, applied in the shape of a sachet has... 

FAIR-Project PL 98-4170. Actipak Evaluating safety, effectiveness, economic-environmental impact and consumer acceptance of active and intelligent packaging. Duration 1998-2001. Final report 2003. 

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DE KRUIJF N and ruk r. Legislative issues relating to active and intelligent packaging in Novel Food Packaging Techniques. Woodhead Publishing Limited, ISBN 1 85573 675 6. 

RtiK R and de kruhe n. Active and Intelligent packaging development. Part I. Definitions, efficacy tests and migration experiments. Food, Cosmetics and Drug Packaging 2003, 8, 152-159. 

ROBERTS R, Consumer attitudes and future trends for active and intelligent packaging. Abstract of lecture of the European networking conference on Active and Intelligent packaging for food, Actipak unwraps Europe , held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 20-21 January 2003, p. 23-26. 

DE JONG AR, BOUMANS H, SLAGHEK T, VAN VEEN J, RIJK R and VAN ZANDVOORT M, Active and Intelligent packaging for food is it the future Food Additives Cont. 2005, 22 (10), 975-979. 

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