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Advanced Sterilization Technologies Unwrap Packaging Potential [PACKAGING] Shyam Sablani and Claire Koelsch Sand Advanced Sterilization Technologies Unwrap Packaging Potential onsumers’ desire for nutritious developing MATS in 2001 with low-acid food in 2009, that technol- foods and industry interest in grant support from the Defense ogy has not been commercialized Csafe, more energy-efficient, Department’s Dual Use Scientific & because it is not yet cost-effective. high-throughput processes have led Technology Program. A 915 MHz, But both MATS and PATS are game- to advanced food sterilization tech- single-mode, and semicontinuous changers for packaging because they nologies such as microwave-assisted MATS system for processing low- fueled research and development of thermal sterilization (MATS) and acid, in-packaged foods was a comprehensive array of flexible pressure-assisted thermal steriliza- developed at WSU, and in 2009, the high-barrier films that are commonly tion technologies (PATS). In fact, U.S. Food and Drug Administration used with retort processing. sterilization of in-packaged foods (FDA) accepted a petition to pre- using microwave systems has serve homogeneous low-acid food How MATS and PATS Work already been commercialized in using the WSU MATS system. WSU The MATS system consists of four Europe and Japan. licensed the MATS technology in pressurized sections: preheating, The U.S. Department of 2010 for global commercialization microwave heating, holding, and Agriculture’s National Institute of exclusively to a company that is cooling. In each section, water at a Food and Agriculture and the now part of Tata Industries; Tata controlled temperature circulates Department of Defense have sup- SmartFoodz operates the first indus- from the individual water circulating ported the development and trial MATS unit at its facility in Sri system. The sealed food packages commercialization of microwave- City, India. are transported through different based sterilization technologies. Although PATS received FDA water-filled sections using a convey- Washington State University started approval of a petition to preserve ing system (Tang 2015). PATS differs from MATS in that both higher temperatures and pressures are required for food Shelf-stable Tata Q products are produced in India using sterilization. For example, in PATS, MATS technology. Photo courtesy of Tata SmartFoodz pressures of 600–800 MPa and initial chamber fluid temperature of 90oC are used to ensure the inactivation of spores and enzymes. This synergistic effect of temperature and pressure helps reduce the total processing time and lowers food exposure to high temperatures compared with retort processing (Al-Ghamdi et al. 2020). Reduced food processing time helps to improve the sensory and nutritional characteristics of low- acid shelf-stable foods (Al-Ghamdi et al. 2020). Flexibility in Packaging Materials Many of the flexible high-barrier films used with retort processing were pg 60 08.21 • www.ift.org explicitly developed for the MATS and PATS environments. Use of flex- ible packaging is critical since PATS requires the package’s interface to be flexible to transmit higher pres- sure, eliminating the possible use of metal cans and glass jars common in retort processing. In addition, alumi- num foil-laminated pouches designed to withstand the retort process are not compatible with the MATS pro- cess, and the metal layer may delaminate and blister under the influence of PATS high temperature and pressure. Polymer-based packaging materi- als with superior barrier properties, such as polymeric multilayer films Tata SmartFoodz operates the MATS-42 unit at its facility and pouches, are suitable for in Sri City, India. Photo courtesy of Tata SmartFoodz advanced sterilization technologies like MATS and PATS. Multilayer poly- meric films contain two or more PET- and PA-based multilayer films deposition of metal oxides on the PET polymer layers combined by coextru- provide high oxygen and moderate to or PA substrates, including physical sion, lamination, blending, and/or high moisture barrier characteristics. vapor deposition by electron beam coating to achieve the desired gas Kuraray has developed different evaporation and sputtering, chemical barrier, optical, thermal, mechanical, grades of EVOH, commercially known vapor deposition, plasma-enhanced and morphological properties as EVAL, for high temperature and chemical vapor deposition, and spray for a particular food packaging pressure applications. Their excep- coating and spinning methods. When application. tional gas barrier properties make coated with metal oxides with a typi- EVAL resins an excellent choice for cal thickness of 60–300 nm, polymers Multilayer Film Advantages flexible and rigid food packaging such as PET, PP, and nylons have Significant advances in improving the applications. Likewise, polymer improved barrier properties similar to gas barrier of polymeric films have nanoclay composite has been used to those of a metalized film. been made in the past decade. prevent oxygen ingress and is suit- Commercially, Amcor uses SiO2 Several global polymer companies, able for the MATS processing coating to produce high-barrier films including Amcor, DNP, Kuraray, environment. suitable for MATS applications. Mitsubishi, Printpack, and Toppan, High-barrier metal oxide-coated Nippon has developed SiO2 and Al2O3 have invested significantly in films provide a robust solution for coated PET- and nylon-based very research and development for high- the MATS and PATS environment. high-barrier films for food packaging barrier polymer packaging for Because metal oxides are transpar- applications. Another high-barrier sterilization processes. Synthetic ent to microwaves, metal film known as GL (Good Layer), devel- polymers such as polyethylene oxide-coated PET- and PA-based oped by Toppan, contains SiO2/Al2O3 terephthalate (PET), nylons and poly- multilayer films are suitable for these coating on a base film of PET. An amides (MXD-6 and PA), ethylene processes. Metal oxides such as overcoating on top of the inorganic vinyl alcohol (EVOH), and polypropyl- silicon dioxide (SiO2) and aluminum metal oxide layer improves the flex ene (PP) have been used to develop oxide (Al2O3) can be used as coating crack resistance of GL films. multilayer films and pouches. materials to create multilayer films. A Mitsubishi Gas and Chemical and EVOH- and metal oxide-coated variety of techniques can be used for others have developed oxygen 08.21 • www.ift.org 61 pg [PACKAGING] Advanced Sterilization Technologies Unwrap Packaging Potential continued... scavenger-based high-barrier packaging shelf life after sterilization. instruments and polymer science. For technology to improve food shelf life. This The need for an extended shelf life example, it employed confocal laser packaging allows oxygen-scavenging advanced barrier technologies consider- microscopy, scanning electron micros- elements to absorb residual oxygen while ably. New polymeric packaging with copy, and atomic force microscopy to preventing external oxygen from perme- improved gas barrier properties was probe into failure mechanisms of metal ating into the package. The multilayer required for military rations and space oxide–coated polymeric structures packaging comprises a protective layer, a missions that specify 3 yr and 5 yr shelf subjected to sterilization processes metal oxide-coated barrier layer, a layer lives, respectively. Metal oxide coating (Al-Ghamdi et al. 2019, Parhi et al. 2019, embedded with oxygen-absorbing used for improving the barrier properties Zhang et al. 2017, Dhawan et al. 2014). agents, and a heat seal layer. This high- of multilayer polymeric packaging devel- When the laboratory found that defects Both MATS and PATS are game-changers for packaging because they fueled research and development of a comprehensive array of flexible high-barrier films that are commonly used with retort processing. barrier packaging, coupled with oped pinholes and cracks after packages decreased the barrier performance of advanced processing, improves food were subjected to MATS and PATS pro- packaging, they developed oxygen-sensi- shelf life while retaining existing nutri- cesses (Zhang et al. 2017, Dhawan et al. tive gel systems based on agar and gellan ents and texture (Patel et al. 2019). 2014). During sterilization processes, gum to quickly detect defects in metal mechanical and thermal stresses caused oxide–coated film pouches (Parhi et al. Advancing Barrier Packaging Technologies defects in the metal oxide coating, result- 2019). These oxygen-sensing gels can WSU research has significantly contrib- ing in deterioration of package gas minimize the design cycle for improved uted to developing a new generation of barrier properties and compromising the performance coatings for food packaging metal oxide-based high-barrier packag- food’s shelf life. Therefore, innovations in films. ing technologies, a research area within barrier technology were needed, includ- In addition, positron annihilation life- advanced sterilization technologies. For ing application of inorganic and organic time spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction example, when research on high-barrier barrier coating, nanocomposite materi- explained how an increase in fractional flexible polymer packaging started at als, and blends of high-barrier polymers free volume and crystal fragmentation WSU in 2007, flexible packaging compat- and standard polymers. and other morphological changes in poly- ible with this unique processing The WSU laboratory addressed this mers
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