Conclusions about the Active Agents

It is difficult to predict what the future for the development of the active agents will be. By considering what was declared by very well informed authors [1], there are potential applications for the active agents to achieve long-term food protection. Certainly, it is true that protecting food for a few days is one thing, but there is a quite another objective, more attractive, to be able to keep the same food under safety conditions over a period of time exceeding one or two weeks. 

However, a problem appears with the various qualifications of the specialists necessitated by the work. There should be the specialists in polymers and polymer additives, the people responsible for the food, the experts in packaging, but also the bacteriologists as well as the analysts, but fortunately, the experts in chemical engineering could imite all those people, and the first step is the introduction of the dimensionless mmibers. The dimensionless number allows those people to work independently, nevertheless having in mind the same objective. 

Al-Ati and J.H. Hotchkiss, The Role of Film Permeselectivity in MAP (private review paper). 

Strupinsky and L.R. Kline, Active Packaging for Food Applications, Lancaster, PA, Technomic Publishing Co, 2001. 

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