Recent Developments in Smart Food Packaging Focused on Biobased and Biodegradable Polymers

Food packaging has a crucial function in the modern food industry. New technologies seek to meet consumers and industrial's demands. Changes related production, sale practices consumers' lifestyles, along with environmental awareness advance new areas of knowledge (such as nanotechnology or biotechnology), act driving forces develop smart packages that can extend shelf-life, keeping supervising their innocuousness quality also taking care environment. This review describes main concepts types active intelligent packaging, focusing on recent progress trends using biodegradable biobased polymers. Numerous studies show great possibilities these materials. Future research needs focus some important aspects such scale-up, costs, regulatory aspects, acceptance, make systems commercially viable.