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病的风险，改善人口的健康和福祉。为了实现这些目标，该项目将开发创新的可持续包装，提高保质期性能。包装系统将基于使用具有成本竞争力的、目前未使用的农业废物和使用活性包装的新概念;这种包装将减少/消除病原微生物的生长，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粮食损失。该包装系统将采用农业废物（棕榈空果串）设计，为其他后续更广泛的用途建立一个平台，并将有助于最大限度地减少废物填埋问题。该方法将开发一种工具，以减少食物中毒的问题，如食物中毒。在英国和马来西亚，食用被病原体微生物变质的肉类/蔬菜/即食食品被认为是最常见的食物中毒来源，反映了欧洲和亚洲更普遍的情况。生物活性分子将使用来自英国/或马来西亚的草药生产。该提案侧重于从英国和马来西亚的角度以及行业内的实践来解决这个问题，这也将具有更广泛的国际相关性和影响力。

This project will underpin an UK-Malaysian "Research and Innovation" bridge to accelerate the deployment of knowledge 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 plastics going to landfill, and c) improve health and well being of the population by reducing risk of communicable diseases transmitted by foodborne pathogens in meat or vegetables. To achieve these objectives, the project will develop innovative sustainable packaging with improved shelf-life performance. The packaging system will be based on the use of cost-competitive, presently un-used agri-waste and the use of a new concept of active packaging; a packaging that will reduce/eliminate pathogen microbial growth, increasing shelf-life of packaged food (meat and vegetables). This will reduce food loss across the supply chain. The packaging system will be designed with agri-waste (palm empty fruit bunch), setting-up a platform for other subsequent broader uses, and will contribute to minimising waste-to-landfill problems. The approach will develop a tool to reduce problems of food poisoning, as food poisoning. Consumption of meat/vegetables/ready meals spoiled with pathogen micro-organisms is considered to be the most common source of food poisoning both in the UK and in Malaysia, reflecting a more general case both in Europe and Asia. The bioactive molecules will be produced using herbs, sourced from the UK/ or from Malaysia.This proposal focuses on the issue from both the UK and Malaysian perspective and practices within the industry that will also have wider international relevance and impact.