Food Packaging Materials: Testing & Quality Assurance

About

Preeti Singh has obtained her masters degree (food technology) and PhD (dairytechnology) from leading institutions in India. She has worked as a scientist at DefenceFood Research Laboratory in Mysore India for 2 years. In 2008 she joined the chair ofFood Packaging Technology Technical University of Munich (TUM) as a researchscientist. Later she joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Food Process Engineering and Packaging IVV Freising Germany. She has been actively publishing on food packa-ging contributing 28 international papers and 15 technical papers and is currentlycoeditor of two forthcoming books on packaging. She is also managing editor ofFood Packaging & Shelf Life published by Elsevier Science UK. Ali Abas Wani is a senior researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engi-neering and Packaging Freising Germany. Born and educated in India hereceived his masters degree (food technology) and PhD (food technology)from leading Indian universities. Since 2006 he has been a senior assistant pro-fessor at the Islamic University of Science and Technology Awantipora Indiawhere he was responsible for establishing the Department of Food Technologyand also initiated several key food science programs in the region. Additionallyhe is establishing a food testing center at the Islamic University of Science and Tech-nology Awantipora. Dr. Wani is also a cochair for the European Hygienic Engineer-ing Design Group (EHEDG) representing the Indian regional section. He is thecofounder and editor-in-chief ofFood Packaging & Shelf Life published by ElsevierScience UK. Dr. Wani has published numerous international papers book chapterscoedited books and conference papers. His research focus is on the development offunctional ingredients and measurement of foodquality. In addition to close associa-tionwithmanyscientific organizations in the area of food science and technology heis an active reviewer forCarbohydrate  PolymersFood  ChemistryLWTFoodScience  and  TechnologyJournal  of  Agricultural  Food  Chemistry and many otherscientific journals of repute. Horst-Christian Langowski is a professor and the chair of Food Packaging Tech-nology Dean of Studies at the TUM School of Life Sciences WeihenstephanTechnical University of Munich (TUM) andthe director of the Fraunhofer Institutefor Process Engineering and Packaging Fraunhofer IVV Freising Germany.He received his diploma degree in physics in 1980 and PhD in 1989 both fromthe University of Hannover Germany. He worked with the Philips Group from1981 to 1991 as a development engineerand project manager before joiningFraunhofer IVV in 1991. Since then he has been deeply involved in food packagingand shelf-life research at both TUM and Fraunhofer IVV. Professor Langowski hasreceived numerous research grants and presented his work at several internationalconferences. He has published many research papers technical papers patents andbook chapters and has supervised many masters and doctoral theses. Among other functions he is a member of the management board of the BayerischeStaatsbrauerei Weihenstephan and a member of the advisory board of the groupon extrusion technology within the Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (VDI). He isalso the cofounder and editor-in-chief ofFood Packaging and Shelf Lifewhichis published by Elsevier Science UK.