Find solutions for fresh meat
Release time:
2025-03-04
The project is a three-year research project involving Bavaria and Austria. Under the leadership of Management Core -bruck(MCD), as part of a three-stage research process, five project partners from science and industry will study the interaction between packaging materials and the products they are packaged in. The goal of the announced project is to develop packaging that keeps meat fresh and improves consumer safety.
Although the figures have fallen slightly in recent years, the average German consumer still consumes around 86 kg of meat per year. Austria consumes about 100kg per capita, and the United States consumes 120kg. Most meat products in the home are now packaged in film. Experts from science and industry are now tasked with assessing the interaction between the films used and food products and making recommendations for practical use.
Research process
The first stage is the analysis of a variety of packaging materials, including traditional materials, as well as sustainable and resource-efficient materials, followed by the characterization of their mechanical properties, barrier functions and packaging integrity. In the second phase, the focus is on the interaction between the tested material and the meat product. By measuring color, texture, bacterial count and fat, project participants wanted to gain broad knowledge about the impact of packaging materials on food storage life, as well as understanding which films work best for keeping meat fresh. The third phase of the project is to examine how this knowledge can be applied in practice. MULTIVAC, one of the project participants, will make use of its expertise in packaging, packaging machinery and overall packaging methods in the third phase and will also undertake sample production, including the manufacture of suitable machine molds at the company's Training and Innovation Centre at its Wolfertschwenden headquarters.
When packaging food and fresh Meat, special consideration is also given to ecological and resource conservation factors, which are also taken into Project objective
The main goal of the project is to use the most suitable packaging to significantly improve the health of consumers.
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