Plastic Packaging: Interactions with Food and Pharmaceuticals

Otto G. Piringer, A. L. Baner “Plastic Packaging: Interactions with Food and Pharmaceuticals"

Wiley-VCH| 2008-04-11 | ISBN: 3527314555 | 632 pages | PDF | 4,4 Mb

Plastics are the most important class of packaging materials. This successful handbook, now in its second edition, covers all important aspects of plastic packaging and the interdisciplinary knowledge needed by food chemists, pharmaceutical chemists, food technologists, materials scientists, process engineers, and product developers alike.

This is an indispensable resource in the search for the optimal plastic packaging. Materials characteristics, additives and their effects, mass transport phenomena, quality assurance, and recent regulatory requirements from FDA and European Commission are covered in detail with ample data.

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