Information consumption drives smart packaging development to achieve food control

Smart homes, smart TVs, smart phones... Unwittingly lead us into a smarter, more technologically convenient era. Food, clothing, housing, and transportation are all controllable. With the development of science and technology, the age of smart packaging is approaching. Increasing attention to food safety and the strong demand for reducing the loss of perishable foods and medicines will stimulate the market's demand for smart packaging.

The arrival of smart packaging era packaging as an essential weapon for product marketing, its role has been gradually valued by many companies. After years of development, the packaging industry has become a real commodity rather than an accessory product. With the improvement of people’s living standards, the development prospects of this industry are also growing.

In order to ensure food safety and prevent consumers from mistakenly eating deteriorating foods, scientists are researching new packaging technologies that can indicate whether foods are deteriorating and packaging technologies that extend the shelf life of foods. These technologies are collectively referred to as "active packaging technologies" or "smart packaging technologies."

A California company is developing a packaging film that can change its permeability with temperature to meet the different oxygen and carbon dioxide needs of different fruits and vegetables. In New Zealand, researchers are developing a fruit package that can indicate when peaches, such as peaches, are soaked and pressed. Food technology researchers estimate that the next 20% to 40% of food packaging will use "active packaging" technology.

Intelligent packaging functions Smart packaging includes a variety of uses. Its functions include: preventing food rot and increasing its shelf life; increasing the appearance, taste, spirit and aroma of the food; and helping to reflect any changes in the product or packaging environment; Enables consumers to obtain facts about the product and its status; reliability specifies the packaging seal.

At present, smart packaging can sense the condition of the food inside the package and inform consumers about its safety data. Such intelligent packaging not only guarantees the consumption of food quality, but also enables retailers to obtain better prices for the product. In the future, if intelligent packaging is applied to the pharmaceutical industry, the quality of medicines can be guaranteed and the development of the pharmaceutical industry can be promoted.

To ensure the safety of food and electronic products, many manufacturers use time and temperature functions on the product packaging. Some specialized sensors can also detect when the film and label are processed at an unsafe ambient temperature. With the popularity of smart phones in the world, they are playing an increasingly important role in combating counterfeit products. Many mobile phones currently have a two-dimensional code processing function. Through the camera function of the iphone mobile phone, consumers can take a specific QR code first, and then download and view related coupons, product instructions, education and entertainment information, Recipes and other useful information.

Information Consumption Drives Smart Packaging Development Last year, the State Council issued the “Some Opinions on Promoting Information Consumption and Expanding Domestic Demand” and proposed that by 2015, China’s information consumption scale exceeds 3.2 trillion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of more than 20%, including new types based on the Internet. The scale of information consumption reached 2.4 trillion yuan, an average annual increase of more than 30%. Information consumption will drive 640-960 billion scale smart packaging needs.

At the same time, the growth of the information packaging industry will drive the growth of the related packaging industry. In 2012, China's industrial packaging output value exceeded 1.3 trillion, accounting for 2.67% of GDP. If you assume that in the field of high-end information product packaging, packaging industry output value of 2% -3%. From the total point of view, by 2015, the corresponding demand for high-end packaging will be 64-960 billion yuan; from the perspective of new volume, the 2015 information consumption will increase by 1.5 trillion yuan from 1.7 trillion yuan in 2012, corresponding to The new high-end packaging demand is 300-45 billion yuan.

Editor's Note: Intelligent packaging is the future of the packaging industry, but it is necessary to truly put smart packaging in place and better develop the profit space, in addition to increasing the human and material resources for the development of intelligent packaging technology, but also to keep up with the current The pace of industrialization shifting to informatization has increased input from focusing on new trends in smart technology and promoting mature technologies.

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