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The International workshop on Ecosustainable Food packaging: the industrial challenges was held on Thursday and Friday 4 and 5 July 2013 at the Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development, Institute Polytechnic Leiria Portugal. There was an excellent participation from over 40 scientists and industrialists drawn from eight European Countries. There were excellent Keynote and Contributed Lectures together with some very interesting posters. There was a lively discussion both in the formal sessions and during the breaks.
The key issues raised during the workshop and a number of relevant questions will be available later in the year in the form of a Booklet “Ecosustainable Food packaging: the industrial challenges” published by IPL and Edited by Geoffrey R Mitchell. It will have an ISBN and the booklet will also contain the abstracts of the presentation and some background to the COST Action.
This workshop is part of the COST Action FA0904 Eco-sustainable food packaging based on polymer nanomaterials. All are welcome.
Registration and abstract submission should be completed as soon as possible to secure inclusion. There is no registration fee.
Presentations will be made by leading scientists and industrialists from
The Netherlands, Romania, United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Latvia, Portugal, Italy and Serbia.
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This COST Action FA0904 aims at exploiting the potentiality of polymer nanotechnology in the area of food packaging treating in a complete way the demanding needs of the users, such as health, environment, taste, cost and the specific requirements of the food industry. The envisaged direction is to look at the complete life cycle of the PNFP by the combined efforts of leading research and industrial groups. The Action will identify the barriers (in research and technology, safety, standardisation, trained workforce and technology transfer) that prevent a complete successful development of PNFP and will indicate the strategies to proceed further. Already 54 partners including 13 companies and coming from 23 countries have shown interest in the Action, which will be organized in 4 Working Groups :
- WG1-Development of new safe PNFP;
- WG2 Development of new processing technologies including modelling and simulation;
- WG3-Development of new strategies to identify any critical interaction of PNFP with food;
- WG4-Ethics, Standardization, Science-society dialogue.