Title: QUALITY CONTROL IMPERATIVES IN MAP PROCESS - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Description: The hygiene and safety considerations while packaging of ready-to-eat foods is of paramount importance. Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) is a means of ensuring that the safety and hygiene of ready to eat food is preserved during transit and distribution. The importance of maintaining food safety throughout the supply chain, including during packaging and distribution is evident. Packaging ready to eat foods helps extend their shelf life and protects them from contamination, vermin attacks, pilferage, rancidity, and many other forms of spoilage and taste loss. Packaging of ready to eat foods also paves the way for protection of the packaged food during transportation. It is an excellent means of communicating to the customer the goodness of the packaged ready to eat food inside by printing the product information on the outer cover. MAP also provides consumers with valuable information, such as nutritional information, origin, and safe handling instructions. – PowerPoint PPT presentation