In December 2019, the sudden “COVID-19″ changed our life and eating habits. During the national war against the “COVID-19″, the food industry is doing its best. Some launched marketing activities themed on the “epidemic”, while others have changed the original product packaging and adopted innovative packaging forms to meet the needs of consumers at this special time.

In response to travel restrictions during the epidemic situation, ready-to-eat food and instant food delivery have become the first choice for many consumers. While hoarding will largely disappear after the pandemic, but the long-term trend of restaurant takeout and the surge in social activities in the post-epidemic period, ready-to-eat food packaging still plays an important role in food protection and travel convenience.

Ready-to-eat food brings great convenience to people’s lives. Big data shows that about 50% of consumers believe that product protection and food safety are the primary requirements for ready-to-eat food packaging, followed by product storage and product information.

Food safety remains a priority

Last year, to standardize the use and management of food delivery seals, the Zhejiang Municipal Bureau of Supervision officially issued relevant regulations. From March 1, 2022, all food delivery in Zhejiang is required to use “takeaway seals” by the standard.

“Takeaway seals” means that to ensure food safety in the delivery process, the regulations stipulate that simple sealing packages such as staples and transparent glue cannot be used as takeaway seals.

The implementation of this regulation has allowed more and more businesses to find ways to better ensure food safety. In addition, to pay attention to food processing and production, improving packaging to achieve the purpose of food safety is also a reliable method.

How to improve food safety from packaging

Packaging instant food in Tray Sealer

As ideal equipment for tray packaging, tray sealer is suitable for the production of Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) and Vacuum Skin Packaging (VSP), where various top films can be sealed onto trays made of different materials. There are two types: semi-automatic and continuous, respectively for product packaging of small and medium production and high-volume efficient packaging.

Thermoforming packaging machine for packaging instant food

Thermoforming packaging machine is more automatic equipment that features film rolls made of two different materials through the machine, to complete the entire packaging process.

Different types of ready-to-eat food, prepared dishes, and instant meals need targeted packaging, not only to achieve the ideal shelf life but also to find corresponding packaging schemes according to the way of eating. Utien Pack can provide professional packaging solutions.

As an independent development and production of packaging machinery enterprise, Utien Pack has been committed to developing more efficient and safer preservation technologies. Our production of tray sealers and automatic thermoforming packaging machines can better meet the packaging needs of food enterprises.

Good packaging helps the food industry to better overcome the “COVID-19″.

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