Die Bedeutung organischer Spurenkomponenten für die Qualitätssicherung von Verpackung und Packgut

.Early in 1978, at the same time of the incorporation of the Institute for Food Technology and Packaging into the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, a laboratory for organic trace analysis was founded. The empirical results gained in this laboratory as well as the developmental work resulting therefrom are discussed in this paper which comprises the following three topics: objective measuring of quality and change in quality of foodstuffs, identification and formation of quality reducing trace components in packaging materials, dynamics of interaction between packaging material and packaged product. These topics are part of the skeleton program stipulated by the German Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture and of the projects sponsored by the Forschungsgemeinschaft für Verpackungs- und Lebensmitteltechnik e. V. (Research Association for Packaging and Food Technology), Munich. In the following, only recent treatises or those just in print are being discussed