ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the trending active and intelligent packaging (IP) advances applied to fish and seafood industry, and considers sustainable packaging design: low-environmental-impact active packaging (AP), edible films and coatings, and IP to fish industry monitoring environmental conditions, quality attributes, as well as data carriers. Innovative packaging solutions developed in the last decade, AP and IP, are perceived as more than an integral part of the food system and have the potential of becoming in the near future an everyday packaging commodity. Devices with application to fish and fish product packaging are noninvasive time–temperature indicators (TTIs), gas leakage indicators and relative humidity sensors. TTIs are extensively used in the fish processing industry for monitoring the traceability, the quality, and the shelf life of fish in the chilled and frozen chain. Despite the numerous advantages of innovative fish packaging solutions, a considerable gap in market applications exists.
