The food industry has been under growing pressure to feed an exponentially increasing world population and challenged to meet rigorous food safety law and regulation. The plethora of media consumption has provoked consumer demand for safe, sustainable, organic, and wholesome products with “clean” labels. The application of active and intelligent packaging has been commercially adopted by food and pharmaceutical industries as a solution for the future for extending shelf life and simplifying production processes; facilitating complex distribution logistics; reducing, if not eliminating the need for preservatives in food formulations; enabling restricted food packaging applications; providing convenience, improving quality, variety and marketing features; as well as providing essential information to ensure consumer safety. This chapter reviews innovations of active and intelligent packaging which advance packaging technology through both scavenging and releasing systems for shelf life extension, and through diagnostic and identification systems for communicating quality, tracking and brand protection.

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主动和智能包装：质量和安全性的标志

食品工业承受着日益增长的压力，需要养活成倍增长的世界人口，并且面临着严格的食品安全法律法规的挑战。大量的媒体消费激起了消费者对带有“清洁”标签的安全，可持续，有机和有益健康产品的需求。主动和智能包装的应用已被食品和制药行业商业化采用，作为未来延长货架寿命和简化生产过程的解决方案；促进复杂的分销物流；减少（如果不能消除的话）食品配方中防腐剂的需求；支持受限的食品包装应用；提供便利，提高质量，品种和营销功能；以及提供必要的信息以确保消费者安全。