The available database comprises research projects in Fisheries, Aquaculture, Seafood Processing and Marine Biotechnology active in the time period 2003-2022.
BlueBio is an ERA-NET COFUND created to directly identify new and improve existing ways of bringing bio-based products and services to the market and find new ways of creating value from in the blue bioeconomy.

More information on the BlueBio project and participating funding organizations is available on the BlueBio website: www.bluebioeconomy.eu

Last Update: 2024/05/17

ACTIPACK4FISH
Marine Biotechnology
Seafood Processing
New Active Sustainable Packaging with Natural Antimicrobials for Shelf Life extension of Fish Products
National Programme
National
UCC - University College Cork (Ireland)
TCD - Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), 
2021
2025
€ 599,177
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Plastic pollution and food waste are two major issues worldwide and sustainable packaging development and application is currently the dominant trend across the food industry. ACTIPACK4FISH will develop and demonstrate use of new generation, sustainably active antimicrobial/antioxidant packaging materials (AAPM) for seafood shelf-life extension, enhanced safety, and reduced food and packaging waste, thus addressing environmental concerns associated with such packaging materials and formats. Natural antimicrobial/antioxidant substances will be screened, optimised, characterised, and subsequently integrated into novel packaging materials, including sustainable, recyclable, and biodegradable polymers, to produce advanced multifunctional packaging materials with active features. Whilst potentially suitable for a wide range of food packaging applications, ACTIPACK4FISH will apply and validate these AAPM technologies at laboratory- and industrial-scale for modified atmosphere packaging formats of selected fresh pelagic and demersal fish. ACTIPACK4FISH will help the Irish seafood industry meet the economic, regulatory, and social pressures to be more sustainable.
Fish; Biopolymer; Bioprospecting; Packaging; Biomaterial; Food safety; Antimicrobials;
Not associated to marine areas
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