Intelligent Packaging (IP): An Innovation Technology

Abstract

Today’s consumer wants healthy and nutritious food products which could be preserved, convenient, easy to serve and free from microbial contamination. Packaging is an indispensable vehicle to deliver product to the consumer. In today’s era of convenience based food products, a need for an overall packaging system is highly felt. Intelligent packaging is beneficial to communicate the content and status of packaged food to the consumer. This has the potential to be one of the greatest achievements in the field of food science and technology as this system can work efficiently to reduce the waste and shortage of the food supply. This study presents the importance of intelligent packaging, various tools which help to make convenient and communicate the products to the consumer and application