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Fall 2015
Mar 29, 2024
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FS 24500 - Food Packaging
Associated Term: Fall 2015
Learning Outcomes: 1. Appreciate the important role that packaging plays in today's sophisticated food processing operations, its effect on final product quality and self-life, and its influence on distribution methods and marketing related decisions. 2. Understand the basic packaging materials and the technology to produce food packages. 3. Understand basic concepts of diffusion, permeation, and migration, especially as they relate to package properties, food quality, and product shelf-life. 4. Develop general guidelines for selecting appropriate packaging materials to fit the needs of specific food products. 5. Have a general appreciation of the methods used to test and evaluate packaging materials for specific properties and whole containers for integrity, suitability, and overall performance. 6. Intelligently discuss current food packaging related topics (i.e. package degradability/recyclability, tamper evident/proof packaging, modified atmosphere packaging, aseptic packaging, microwaveable packaging, etc.)
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