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Nowadays, the food supplement industry has grown considerably, mainly due to the orientation of consumers towards more natural products. In Romania, the Institute of Food Bioresources notified over 900 food supplements in 2020 and over 1500 in 2019. Unfortunately, the use of these supplements, although healthy, is problematic due to environmental pollution. The packaging used, often disposable, is highly polluting, multilayer, difficult to sort and impossible to recycle. This paper presents a viable option for pac...

Lately, the food industry, along with other industries, is making efforts to prevent environmental pollution, by improving both processing-development and packaging technologies. Packaging used in the food industry usually uses synthetic, petroleum-based materials, such as polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, etc. These materials are extremely polluting, and the raw materials are non-renewable. A beneficial solution in this regard is the development and use of biodegradable foil packaging that can successfull...

The packaging of a food product is an extremely important step in its path from development to the final consumer. The packaging has important functions: preservation and protection of packaged products, handling, storage and transport, as well as promotion. Most consumers choose a product based on its packaging, so we can say that it is the business card of a product. But because the consumer has refined his preferences and become more and more attentive to what he buys, the industry is looking for solutions to c...