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SBIO-4214: Food and Health Care Packaging

Description: Designed for both current and advanced food and health care packaging. Covering the types of materials and their properties, fabrication, functions, distribution and packaging life cycle for food and health care packaging systems and design. Reviewing recent trends in food and health care packaging systems; sustainable food packaging, medical device packaging, aseptic packaging, package/product interactions, smart active packaging, handling of packages, and modified atmospheric packaging. Exploration to global food and health care packaging standards and compliance, safety issues, and environmental considerations.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: SBIO-3124 and SBIO-3284

Required By: N/A

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 8

Average GPA: 3.40 (A-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 42.00%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.00%

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