Food Packaging Applications of Biopolymer-Based Films

Biopolymers - New Materials for Sustainable Films and Coatings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 211-232

  Gontard, N ^a   Angellier Coussy, H ^a   Chalier, P ^a   Gastaldi, E ^a   Guillard, V ^a   Guillaume, C ^a   Peyron, S ^a  

^a UMR IATE   (France)

Author keywords

'Consumption of fossil resources'; Examples of biopolymer applications for food packaging materials; Food contact material (FCM); Food packaging applications of biopolymer based films; Food packaging material specifications; Gross calorific values (GCV); Oxygen transmission rate (OTR); Research directions and perspectives; Water vapour permeability (WVP); Water vapour transmission rate (WVTR)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886131995     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119994312.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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