Responsive food packaging: Progress and prospects

Unlike active packaging, responsive packaging systems react to stimuli in the food or the environment to enable real time food quality and food safety monitoring or remediation.
In a review, researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities US attempt to define and clarify the different classes of food packaging technologies. Special emphasis is given to the description of responsive food packaging including its technical requirements, the state of the art in research and the current expanding market. The development and promises of stimuli responsive materials are addressed. An article about the research is published in Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety.
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