New flow wrap keeps poultry safe, says Tesco

摘要

The first UK retailer to introduce trayless, leak-proof, printed flow-wraps for all of its whole chickens, Tesco counts the avoidance of pathogens such as campylobacter among the key benefits of the new pack format. The project began as a packaging reduction exercise a couple of years ago, says film provider Sealed Air Cryovac. By shedding the tray, in particular,Tesco has achieved a 70% weight reduction on its annual volume of 35M whole birds. But Tesco identifies one of the more interesting benefits as food safety."Standard packaging is not leak-proof, unlike [this] flow-wrap, which provides full packaging integrity and is fully compliant with Food Standards Agency recommendations,"said technical manager poultry Max Tooley.