Research and Application Progress on Food Active MAP Packaging

With the development of food packaging, active modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) has become a hot topic in recent years. Unlike traditional inert packaging, active MAP packaging can be designed to interact with the surrounding environment. This paper provides an overview of the various active MAP packaging, including oxygen scavenging packaging, carbon dioxide scavenging/generating packaging, ethylene scavenging packaging, humidity controlled packaging, antibacterial packaging and spontaneous modified atmosphere packaging, and sums up the research progress as well as the problems on food packaging safety in recent years. Active MAP packaging is the current focus but also will be the future direction of food packaging technology.