Packaging adequacy to reduce losses of fresh food and estimate of environmental gains

• Grant number: 22/04558-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: September 09, 2022
• End date: October 13, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Food Science and Technology - Food Engineering
• Principal Investigator: Ana Paula Reis Nolêtto
• Grantee: Ana Paula Reis Nolêtto
• Host Investigator: Fredrik Nilsson
• Host Institution: Instituto de Tecnologia de Alimentos (ITAL). Agência Paulista de Tecnologia dos Agronegócios (APTA). Secretaria de Agricultura e Abastecimento (São Paulo - Estado). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Lund University, Lund, Sweden
• Associated research grant: 17/50349-0 - Plan of institutional development in research of the Institute of Food Technology - ITAL (PDIp), AP.PDIP

Abstract

Annually, between the harvest stages and the retail market, are estimated 14% of losses and 17% of waste in all of food produced (FAO 2019; UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME, 2021). In the fruit and vegetable sector, the regions of Europe, Industrialized Asia and North America, present, on average, 12% of losses between the processing, packaging and distribution stages. In Latin America in these same stages, losses are equivalent to 32% of production (FAO, 2011). Within this context, this Project provides for a Research Fellowships Abroad (BPE) for a researcher from the Packaging Technology Center - CETEA of Institute of Food Technology - ITAL to carry out a study of packaging adequacy to reduce losses of fresh food, with an estimate of environmental gains, expanding and applying your knowledge. The training will be developed at the Department of Design Sciences of Lund University, located in Lund in Sweden, which develops research on Packaging Logistics, presenting several works of international relevance on the subject. As the focus of the research will be selected four fresh foods from the Brazilian market, more specifically produced in the State of São Paulo, for a systemic adaptation aiming at: a) the adequacy of the packaging system; b) an identification of processes, technologies and traceability management models that can be used as models or guidelines for national systems and c) evaluation of the current destination of packaging in Brazil and Sweden and the impact of the adjustments in improving their environmental performance. The activities developed at Cetea will be carried out in conjunction with the Laboratory for Learning in Logistics and Transport of the School of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Urban Design at Unicamp under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Orlando Fontes Lima Jr. (AU)