Top 5 packaging solutions With 30 years of experience across the food science and packaging spectrum, Dr Claire Sand through her company, Packaging Technology & Research, offers clients solutions using Strategy, Technology, Consulting and Coaching. ​   Want to keep learning from Dr. Sand? View more of her presentations and articles at http://www.packagingtechnologyandresearch.com/thought-leadership.html Dr. Claire Sand | Owner, Packaging Technology & Research, LLC; Adjunct Professor, Michigan State University; Columnist for Food Technology Magazine http://www.packagingtechnologyandresearch.com/

1. Top 5 Packaging Solutions for
Improved Food Safety, Quality, and
Sustainability

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Agenda
■ Introductions & Housekeeping
■ Top 5 Packaging Solutions
■ Intelligent Packaging
■ Antimicrobial Packaging
■ Clean Packaging
■ Beta Packaging
■ Value Chain Innovation
■ Questions & Answers

3. Introductions &
Housekeeping

4. 4
Housekeeping Reminders
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webinar
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Our Purpose
■ Leveraging 50+ years of expertise in Food Safety, Quality
& Sustainability
■ Complete suite of practical & innovative solutions,
combining consulting & testing capabilities

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Evolution of our Public Health Mission
■ Our story begins with Dr John H.
Silliker
■ Food safety pioneer
■ Embodied curiosity &
entrepreneurial vision
■ Still guiding our innovation-
driven approach today
■ 1990s: Merge of Dr Silliker's vision
and the Mérieux family's dedication to
public health
■ Our food safety mission embraces a
full commitment to consumers’ health
■ Going beyond food with new fields of
expertise.
■ We are taking our mission & expertise further to develop
solutions to support the transformation of the food industry.
■ We are putting sustainability at the heart of what we do.
■ Together, we can build innovative & sustainable approaches
to help feed the growing world population while preserving our
planet!
Better Food. Better Health. Better World.

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360° Packaging Offer
Identify
sustainable
options
Guarantee food
safety
Overall & specific migration tests,
including emerging contaminants such
as mineral oils, bisphenols, PFAS,
microplastics & nanoparticles
Screening of transferable
constituents & risk analysis
associated to the type of packaging and
food matrix
Life Cycle Assessment studies & impact of
packaging changes
Packaging eco-conception
Biodegradability and compostability studies,
aligned with international standards and recognized
by certifications
Safety and quality assessment of your biosourced,
re-used or recycled packages
Environmental claims’ substantiation
Preserve food
integrity
Technological suitability and packaging
resistance: food preservation & protection,
resistance to cooking, traction
Impact of the package on product’s shelf
life
Ensure market
acceptance
Conformity to local markets’
regulation and industry standards
Sensory & Consumer studies
Front of pack labeling &
environmental claims’ validation

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Learning Objectives
The use of packaging to
address food safety,
quality, and
sustainability
Decision process
of antimicrobial
packaging
applications
Capabilities of
intelligent
packaging
technology
Benefits of clean
packaging
Applications of
value chain
innovations

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Panelist Introduction
Dr. Claire Sand is a Global Packaging Leader with 35+ years of broad experience in the food science and packaging spectrum. Dr.
Sand is Owner and Founder of Packaging Technology and Research, LLC and Gazelle Mobile Packaging Inc and an Adjunct Professor
at Michigan State University and CalPoly as well as Food Technology’s monthly Packaging columnist and a monthly contributor to
Packaging Digest. She is an IFT Fellow, Riester-Davis-Brody life-time achievement in food packaging award recipient, serves on
numerous Editorial Boards, is the author of the Packaging Value Chain, and is co-chair of pacfoodwaste

10. Polling Question:
Which of the top 5 packaging solutions are you most interested in?
• Intelligent Packaging
• Antimicrobial Packaging
• Clean Packaging
• Beta Packaging
• Value Chain Innovation

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Top 5 Packaging Solutions for Improved
Food Safety, Quality, Sustainability
Intelligent
Packaging
1 2 3 4 5
Antimicrobial
Packaging
Clean
Packaging
Beta
Packaging
Value Chain
Innovation

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PTR Capabilities
Our services – 4 areas
• Value Chain
& Technology Roadmaps
• Directed Market
& Science Alignment
• Increase Packaging
Platform Sustainability
• Reduced Food Waste
CLIENTS: PACKAGING
AND FOOD COMPANIES AND
ASSOCIATIONS
Technical
Consulting
Technology
Evaluations
Expert Witness
• Technology
Development
• Cost Reductions
• More Sustainable
Packaging solutions
• Food Waste reduction
CLIENTS: PACKAGING AND
FOOD COMPANIES
• Ecommerce
• Migration
• Consumer Research on
Sustainability
• Intelligent Packaging
• More Sustainable
Packaging
• Global Research
Institutes
CLIENTS: PACKAGING AND
FOOD COMPANIES
• Food packaging
expert report,
deposition, and trial
support
CLIENTS: LEGAL FIRMS
Strategy
Consulting

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Food Industry Packaging Industry Associations
PTR Client base
Selected clients

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PTR’s Edge
What we do
Provide tailored packaging
science & value chain
solutions to the
food & packaging industry
Build Innovation
RoadMaps
Technology
Business Case
Building
Tactical
Implementation
Support
Science-based
Infusion
Align Value
Chain
Science-based
Coaching
Prevent Food
Waste
Build Internal
Knowledge
Provide
Science-based
Direction
Solve Package
Sustainability
Puzzle
Screen
Technologies

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PTR’s Edge
Linking food safety, quality and package sustainability
&
PTR Technology Solutions PTR Value Chain Solutions

17. Packaging Solutions across the Value Chain

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PTR’s Edge
Blending packaging and food science with value chain
.. and are tailored to client needs
Our solutions align with your future…

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Top 5 Packaging Solutions for Improved
Food Safety, Quality, Sustainability
Intelligent
Packaging
1 2 3 4 5
Antimicrobial
Packaging
Clean
Packaging
Beta
Packaging
Value Chain
Innovation

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CONSUME
WITHIN
FRESHNESS
INTEGRATOR
CWI APPLIED AT FACTORY
CWI AT RETAIL
CWI IN HOMES
EVIGENCE
VISTAB
TEMPERATURE
INDICATOR
TTI ON PRIMARY
PACKAGING
MICROBIAL
SENSOR
OXIDATION
SENSOR
TOXINS & VEGETATIVE
CELLS SENSOR
VOC & TVB-N SENSOR
MICROBE SENSOR
PH FLUORESCENT DYE
SENSOR
H2S SENSOR
O2 SENSOR
TTI IN TRANSIT
Technology Overview Intelligent
Packaging
1

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CLIENT PROFILE- Major Food Company
RTE brand at QSRs faced major food safety concerns
SOLUTION
■ Identified optimal solution to address a food safety concern & restore
brand confidence
■ Ranked specific intelligent packaging - to be calibrated to accurately
match listeria growth kinetics - solutions for a specific product
■ Prototyped 3-5 best viable options to meet defined success factors
■ Managed development relationship between supplier and brand
■ Built business case to garner higher price for intelligent packaging
TECHNOLOGY
Improves food safety
PTR CLIENT WORK SAMPLE
Intelligent
Packaging
1
 Competitive advantage with
intelligent packaging to lower
labor costs
 Eliminated food safety as a
concern unlike competitors
 Connected with reduced food
waste platforms on UNSDGs
 Expanded sales 15% due to
less waste

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Food Forum
22
• Most degradative food reactions are:
• A function of both time and temperature
• Connect with product quality
• CWI provide:
• Direction for consumers on product quality
after purchase
• Minimal environmental impact
Consume Within Indicators
Improves food quality
Intelligent
Packaging
1

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Improves sustainability (& gains consumers)
Intelligent
Packaging
1
Solution
Communicate
Implement
Focus
Pinpointed Products for Focus
 Quantify the actual food waste consumers
experience when using your products and consumer
opinion on this food waste
 Rank products in order of the highest food waste
reduction opportunities with the most meaning to
consumers
Implement Solutions
 Build relationship with solution provider and Brand
Support internal marketing and packaging to refine
messaging to consumers
 Connect value chain efforts to support food waste
prevention and balance costs and benefits
Selects and Refines Packaging Solutions
 Identify the mode of food deterioration
and viable food waste reduction packaging
solutions
 Rank packaging solutions based on IP,
internal Brand drivers (agility, increased
shelf life), external value chain
 Pinpoint 2-3 specific options that align
and internal drivers and key value chain
elements for support
Merieux-PTR Defines Consumer Communication
 Quantify consumer food waste using 2-3 solutions
 Determine consumer views on semiotic and symbols,
shapes, text, package size, shape, texture and
Willingness to Pay (W2P) for packaging solutions
 Refine communication for the top solutions
 Assess how to sway consumer to packaging with
less food waste vs other Brands

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Intelligent
Packaging
1 2 3 4 5
Antimicrobial
Packaging
Clean
Packaging
Beta
Packaging
Value
Chain
Innovation
Top 5 Packaging Solutions for Improved
Food Safety, Quality, Sustainability

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Technology Overview
Antimicrobial
Packaging
2

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CLIENT PROFILE- European Chemical Company
Needed to commercialize existing antimicrobials into food packaging
SOLUTION
• Determined science-based value proposition in markets of interest
• Applied rubric to assess competitors, pricing, and capital, brand and
packaging company propensity for innovation
• Market sizing at the brand and
packaging film level
• 3 target brands
• 2 target packaging partners
• Implementation Value Chain
drivers
Improves food safety
PTR CLIENT WORK SAMPLE
Antimicrobial
Packaging
2

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Antimicrobial
Packaging
2
CLIENT PROFILE- Major Packaging Supplier
Core technology to inhibit yeast and mold growth needed
focus
SOLUTION
• Ranked, based on market size, food needing antimicrobials
• Ranked packaging formats
• Assessed competitive set
• Identified 5 most viable company targets for market entry
• Determined value chain criteria needed for buy in and scale-
up
• Focus on specific
structures
• Market introductions in
meat and eggs
Improves food quality
PTR CLIENT WORK SAMPLE

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 Employ bio-derived antimicrobial packaging
 As a layer on fossil-derived or bio-derived
polymers
 Chitosan imparts antimicrobial properties
 Combined with other antimicrobial
compounds such as essential oils, metal
nanoparticles)
Improves sustainability
Antimicrobial
Packaging
2

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Intelligent
Packaging
1 2 3 4 5
Antimicrobial
Packaging
Clean
Packaging
Beta
Packaging
Value Chain
Innovation
Top 5 Packaging Solutions for Improved
Food Safety, Quality, Sustainability

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 Chemicals convert raw materials (bauxite, iron, fossil-fuels, bio-mass,
trees, sand) into packaging
 Over 10,000 chemicals are approved for direct food contact worldwide
 Many are linked to cancer, endochrine disruption, and other health and
environmental issues
 Alternatives to Tier 1, 2 and 3 chemicals are being developed and
implemented
Technology Overview Clean
Packaging
3

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Prevalence of fluorinated chemicals in food is confirmed
• Regulations enforced
• Composability standards revised
• Alternatives tested to ensure
eliminate hazards
Improves food safety Clean
Packaging
3

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Improves food quality
• 608 chemicals assessed
for current use in USA
• Information directed to
UP Scorecard
CLIENT PROFILE- Major Environmental Associations
PTR CLIENT WORK SAMPLE
Clean
Packaging
3

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 Packaging is approved based on its defined
use
 Uses change with reuse, recycling and in
biodegradation
 Reuse of packaging may release additives
 Recycled processes can screen out
additives
 Composting releases chemicals and
GHG as degradation happens
 Clean packaging allows for a safe circular
economy
Improves sustainability Clean
Packaging
3

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Intelligent
Packaging
1 2 3 4 5
Antimicrobial
Packaging
Clean
Packaging
Beta
Packaging
Value Chain
Innovation
Top 5 Packaging Solutions for Improved
Food Safety, Quality, Sustainability

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 Beta-packaging focuses on agility
 Makes entrepreneurial foods possible
 Incorporates 5th industrial revolution
 Generative use-focused design
Technology Overview
Beta
Packaging
4

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Beta design:
 Enables consumers to adjust package to tell
them when food will be unsafe
 Allows for consumer to adjust design for safety
 Packaging that senses then acts
 Volatiles arising from microbial growth prompts
responses that either inhibit further microbial
growth or inactivate bacteria
 Aligns with inherent variability of our food
system
Improves Food Safety Beta
Packaging
4

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 AI is advancing the connection of packaging and
quality
 Effective package design directs more intuitive
consumer action
 Packaging design that aligns consumer storage/use
 Fridge Freezer, Pantry, Counter Designs within 1
package
Harness the complexities of
variable human and planet-
centered design
Improves food quality
Beta
Packaging
4

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Least
environme
ntal impact
Best
consumer sustainability
perception
Improves sustainability
PTR CLIENT WORK SAMPLE
Beta
Packaging
4

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Intelligent
Packaging
1 2 3 4 5
Antimicrobial
Packaging
Clean
Packaging
Beta
Packaging
Value Chain
Innovation
Top 5 Packaging Solutions for Improved
Food Safety, Quality, Sustainability

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Technology Overview Value Chain
Innovation
5

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Conduct package resiliency tests
 Stress Test locates weaknesses in the supply chain
 Management of the weakness involves heightened
incoming inspection and QA
Use packaging technology to track
 A truly resilient supply chain is possible
 Food and package supply chain changes are translated
from converters all the way to consumers
Build Trust and Shared value
 Trust between suppliers and brands no longer a lofty goal
 Investment works
Improves Food Safety
Value Chain
Innovation
5

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(Poore and Nemecek, 2018)
A complete picture
of the role of
packaging is
needed for a focus
on quality
Improves food quality Value Chain
Innovation
5

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MasterPack Solution
 Minimal primary packaging for consumer
 Reusable high-barrier MasterPacks opened to restock
shelves
Impact
 Longer shelf life from manufacturer to retailer
 Consumer packaging focused on required shelf life
 Less primary packaging for consumer and MSW
 Potentially more recyclable primary packaging
 Less food waste
$796,708
$2,154 $23,510
$294,043
$112,972
$81,406
$72,986
$366,369
$1,217
Improves sustainability
PTR CLIENT WORK SAMPLE
Value Chain
Innovation
5

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Intelligent
Packaging
1 2 3 4 5
Antimicrobial
Packaging
Clean
Packaging
Beta
Packaging
Value Chain
Innovation
Top 5 Packaging Solutions for Improved
Food Safety, Quality, Sustainability

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Key Takeaways
 Packaging has a key role in food safety, quality, and sustainability
 Merieux and Packaging Technology and Research can meet your packaging needs
 Intelligent Packaging senses then communicates to consumers
 Antimicrobial Packaging provides food-grade preservation to extend food shelf life
 Clean Packaging is essential for a circular economy
 Beta Packaging extends package design adds flexibility closer to the consumer
 Value Chain Innovation will drive fundamental packaging changes

46. Next Steps
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Merieux on
Packaging Solutions
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with Claire

47. Thank you