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Vol.
25 No. 1
January - February 2003
Food Packaging: Ensuring
the Safety and Quality of Foods
John
Gilbert and Angela López De Sá (proceeding
eds.)
Food Additives and Contaminants
2002, 19, S1-S228
The papers presented in this
Special Issue of Food Additives and Contaminants comprise
the Proceedings of the Second ILSI Europe International Symposium
on Food PackagingEnsuring the Safety and Quality of
Food, held in Vienna, Austria, from 810 November 2000.
The First Symposium was held in 1996 in Budapest, Hungary
(Published in Food Additives and Contaminants 1997,
14, 517775).
The objectives of the second
symposium were to advance the underlying science relating
to the safety and quality of packaged foods, to disseminate
results of ongoing research, and to stimulate debate on implications
for the future. The symposium was organized in collaboration
with IUPAC, the Vienna University of Technology, and the European
Commission (EC). The EC has supported a number of research
and technological development projects on food packaging,
migration, and development of analytical methods in the Fourth
and Fifth Framework Programmes. A number of these projects,
which were recently completed or are still underway, were
included in the symposium, either as oral presentations or
as posters. In view of the close linkage between the symposium
and these EC funded projects in the Framework Programmes,
the symposium was granted funding from DG Research as an Accompanying
Measures Action.
More than 250 participants
from Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa attended the
three-day symposium. The multidisciplinary audience included
food scientists, chemists, mathematicians, physicists, and
microbiologists from industry, academia, and government. Twenty-two
presentations were given, of which 20 are published in this
proceedings. The presentations were divided into five sessions
covering risk assessment of packaging materials; modeling;
recycling and re-use of packaging; active, intelligent, and
novel packaging; and new analytical approaches. In the proceedings,
the papers are organized according to these sessions.
Following the success of the
1996 and 2000 symposia, the ILSI Europe Task Force on Packaging
is currently planning a third symposium to be held in 2004
at a European venue.
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