Code
179P35015
Duration
01 October 2015 → 30 September 2019
Funding
Regional and community funding: IWT/VLAIO
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Other chemical sciences
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Medical and health sciences
- Nutrition and dietetics
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Agricultural and food sciences
- Agricultural animal production
- Food sciences and (bio)technology
Keywords
sustainable food packaging
Project description
OptiBarrier is a VIS-range around the central problem: on hold versus under packaging. The program consists of three sub-processes. In the first section, the effect of different levels of gas-barrier is studied, resulting in different dynamic oxygen concentrations on the shelf-life of foodstuffs. The second sub-project zooms in on the light-barrier packaging, and more concretely on the interaction between light exposure, light transmittance of the packaging, the dynamic oxygen concentration in the packaging Kung and the resultant shelf-life of foodstuffs. The third project is investigating how a functional barrier can be integrated into packaging materials (specific) migration (eg. Mineral oil) to reduce the food from these materials.