Objective ISA-Pack will develop a flexible sustainable, active and intelligent technology platform for the packaging of fresh food produce, targeting extended shelf life and quality, enhanced safety and reduced food and packaging waste. Whilst suitable for a wide range of foods, ISA-Pack will validate the resulting materials and technologies for modified atmosphere and stretch wrap packaging of fresh beef steaks. Key objectives include:- to develop novel unsaturated polyhydroxybutyrate copolymer materials derived from microbial fermentation of sustainable feedstocks and incorporating low volume cross linkages, demonstrating enhanced properties suitable for high performance gas barrier and stretch film packaging applications;- to identify synergistic combinations of active food preservation chemistries that may be covalently bound (grafted) within polymeric materials using reactive extrusion techniques; resulting in high efficacy active packaging materials, impacting minimally on food organoleptic properties, ensuring compliance with food ingredient / migration limits; and demonstrating extended food shelf life and quality and improved safety;- to develop an accurate, tuneable and reliable intelligent indicator system that may be directly printed onto packaging materials (cost efficiency), combining integrated time temperature indicators (microbe growth) with lipid oxidation indicators (freshness), thereby providing assurances of food shelf life, safety and quality;- to validate the ISA-Pack results within industrial packaging production processes, including performance assessment with regards to active and intelligent functionality and impact on food shelf-life, quality and safety;- to undertake a full life cycle and economic assessment of the ISA-Pack products, ensuring clear and quantified results addressing specific priority concerns;Through extension of shelf life the ISA-Pack seeks to reduce retailer supply chain wastage of fresh food produce by 75%. Fields of science natural scienceschemical scienceselectrochemistryelectrolysisnatural sciencesbiological sciencesbiochemistrybiomoleculeslipidsengineering and technologyindustrial biotechnologybioprocessing technologiesfermentation Programme(s) FP7-KBBE - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology Topic(s) KBBE.2011.2.3-03 - Advanced and flexible technologies for active, intelligent and sustainable food packaging Call for proposal FP7-KBBE-2011-5 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP-TP - Collaborative Project targeted to a special group (such as SMEs) Coordinator THE UK MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE LIMITED EU contribution € 409 068,00 Address MIDDLE ASTON HOUSE OX25 5PT OXFORDSHIRE United Kingdom See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Andrew Dean (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (9) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM United Kingdom EU contribution € 556 732,00 Address Edgbaston B15 2TT Birmingham See on map Region West Midlands (England) West Midlands Birmingham Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact May Chung (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data CAMPDEN BRI United Kingdom EU contribution € 398 087,00 Address STATION ROAD GL55 6LD Chipping Campden See on map Region South West (England) Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Bristol/Bath area Gloucestershire Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Clare Cairns (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO DEL EMBALAJE, TRANSPORTE Y LOGISTICA Spain EU contribution € 382 725,00 Address CALLE ALBERT EINSTEIN 1 PARQUE TECNOLOGICO DE VALENCIA 46980 Paterna See on map Region Este Comunitat Valenciana Valencia/València Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Ana Viñas Ruiz (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data DOMINO PRINTING SCIENCES PLC United Kingdom EU contribution € 199 680,00 Address TRAFALGAR WAY BAR HILL CB23 8TU CAMBRIDGE See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Lee Metters (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data BIOPAC (UK) LIMITED United Kingdom EU contribution € 242 493,00 Address AINTREE ROAD UNITS 19 & 20 KEYTEC BUSINESS PARK WR10 2JN PERSHORE See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Eric Graham (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data FKUR KUNSTSTOFF GMBH Germany EU contribution € 210 015,00 Address Siemensring 79 47877 Willich See on map Region Nordrhein-Westfalen Düsseldorf Viersen Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Daniel Peltzer (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data OMNIFORM SA Belgium EU contribution € 198 846,00 Address Avenue Franklin - Zoning Industriel Nord 2 1301 WAVRE See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Alain Wambeke (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data WANDA MARIA SZPERLINSKA Poland EU contribution € 174 540,00 Address UL. CICHA 3 M 1 61 710 POZNAN See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Jacek Gazda (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data ASOCIACION EMPRESARIAL DE INVESTIGACION CENTRO TECNOLOGICO DEL CALZADOY DEL PLASTICO DE LA REGION DE MURCIA Spain EU contribution € 227 760,00 Address AVENIDA EUROPA 4 5 POLIGONO INDUSTRIAL LAS SALINAS 30840 Alhama De Murcia See on map Region Sur Región de Murcia Murcia Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact María Del Mar Villavieja Hidalgo (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data