Newton Fund - Safe Biodegradable Packaging (SafeBioPack)

该项目将支持英国-马来西亚的“研究和创新”桥梁，以加速知识的部署和研究的利用，这些知识和研究将a）改善生产者和消费者之间运输/储存过程中的食品保存（在城市环境中），B）减少城市固体废物，以及c）通过降低由肉类或蔬菜中的食源性病原体传播的传染性疾病的风险来改善人口的健康和福祉。为了实现这些目标，该项目将开发负担得起的创新可持续包装，提高保质期性能。包装系统将基于使用具有成本竞争力的、目前未充分利用的废物和使用活性包装的新概念;包装将减少/消除病原微生物生长，增加包装食品（肉类和蔬菜）的保质期。这将减少整个供应链的食物浪费。该包装系统将设计与农业废物（棕榈空水果束），建立一个平台，为其他后续更广泛的用途，并将有助于尽量减少废物填埋问题。

This project will underpin an UK-Malaysian “Research and Innovation” bridge to accelerate the deployment ofknowledge and the exploitation of research that will a) improve the preservation of food during transport/storage between the producer and the consumer (in urban settings), b) reduce urban solid waste from plasticsgoing to landfill, and c) improve health and well being of the population by reducing risk of communicablediseases transmitted by foodborne pathogens in meat or vegetables. To achieve these objectives, the projectwill develop affordable innovative sustainable packaging with improved shelf-life performance. The packagingsystem will be based on the use of cost-competitive, presently under utilised waste and the use of a newconcept of active packaging; a packaging that will reduce/eliminate pathogen microbial growth, increasingshelf-life of packaged food (meat and vegetables). This will reduce food waste across the supply chain. Thepackaging system will be designed with agri-waste (palm empty fruit bunch), setting-up a platform for othersubsequent broader uses, and will contribute to minimising waste-to-landfill problems.