date:Jun 02, 2012
The project, launched last January, which forms part of the EU Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), aims to developsustainable, active and intelligentpackaging for fresh produce derived from microbes, according to partners involved with the research. It offers the potential to eliminate up to 75% of fresh produce that is wasted before being consumed, they say.
The project, called ISA-Pack, will use microbes to produce a novel polyhydroxybutyrate polymer that will be used to form stretch-wrap fi