Fish Packaging
By
James Carley
Neha S. Charan
:-Preface
A package provides protection, tampering resistance, and special physical or biological need. It may bear a nutrition facts label and other information about food being offerd for sale, basic packaging materials include paper, cartons, sheets of metal, metal foils and many kinds of plastics. Despite the rapid growth in use of plastics, the role of paper and carton of packaging materials does not decrease. The packaging industry properties or by introducing new leak proof designs. The new containers are often lighter and less bulky.
Quality assurance is essential in each technological process, and suitable packaging materials and methods are of great importance. Fish is a highly perishable item and its packaging should protect the product from contamination and prevent it from spoilage, and at the same time it should enhance shelf life of fish product, facilite the display of information on the fish product.
This book on fish packaging describes freshwater fish processing and equipments in small plants, packaging of fish and fishery products treatment in fish after freezing, handling and processing shrimp, labeling and certification, and rigour in fish: the effect on quality etc. the book offers a comprehensive view of the fish packaging and the least developments in the field. Its concise discussions and relatively short length still cover the essential information found in larger texts, but with a more manageable and readable approach. This east-to understand guide beautifully presents fish packaging text appropriate for the students, researches and professionals in the field.
Contents:-
- Packaging of fish and fishery products.
- Freshwater fish processing and equipment in small plants
- Treatment of fish after freezing
- Containers for fish handling
- Handling and processing shrimp
- Labeling and certification
- Rigour in fish: the effect on quality
- Freezer and cold storage
- Considerations in the application of the HACCP principles to seafood production
- Seafood mislabeling.
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