Objective
The aim of the project is to extend the life of shellfish after packaging during storage and distribution. The (economic) advantages are obvious:
- reduction of the required excess weight (often 15-30%) to ensure a minimum net weight to living shellfish upon delivery.
- improved quality for the consumer in terms of freshness of (living) shellfish and the textured properties of the fragile product.
- better utilisation of the scarcely available natural resources.
- added value for the shellfish trade due to increased flexibility in the logistics and reduced transport costs.
Two new and innovative approaches underlie to above mentioned objectives, namely:
- The realization of tightly wrapped packaging of living shellfish, anticipation on the specific (biological) behaviour of shellfish.
- Modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) of living shellfish, either actively or passively controlled by means of selective, diffusive membranes.
A continued input of scientific disciplines (shellfish biology and technology, microbiology, polymeric materials and packaging technology and refrigeration technology) as well as industrial input for practical evaluation and implementation are projected. The process parameters will be assessed via detailed investigation which will appear to be critical for the quality and shelflife as well as the health aspects of living shellfish.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology mechanical engineering thermodynamic engineering
- natural sciences biological sciences microbiology
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Coordinator
1970 AB IJMUIDEN
Netherlands
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