Background

The first contact that every customer has when buying a food is the packaging, this is responsible for the handling, security, aesthetics and even advertising of the product. Over the years, the food industry has always shown great interest in developing packaging with different materials, some toxic for humans and others not.

Scope and approach

This article presents a bibliometric review to identify during the last 20 years, what types of materials have been used to develop food packaging for human consumption, also identifies who are the most focused researchers in this topic, which countries are most interested in the field and how an entire academic social network has been created to identify the future of food packaging.

Key findings and conclusions

The results show that the future of food packaging materials includes not only an advanced use of technology, but also a great concern for the care of health and the environment.

中文翻译：

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¿食品包装材料有何新变化？1996年至2016年的文献计量学回顾

背景

每个客户在购买食物时首先要接触的是包装，这负责产品的处理，安全性，美观性甚至广告。多年来，食品工业一直对开发使用不同材料的包装材料表现出极大的兴趣，其中有些材料对人有毒，而另一些则没有。

范围和方法

本文提供了文献计量学的综述，以查明在过去20年中使用了哪些类型的材料来开发供人类食用的食品包装，还确定了谁是该主题中研究最集中的人员，哪些国家对该领域最感兴趣以及如何创建整个学术社交网络来确定食品包装的未来。

主要发现和结论

结果表明，食品包装材料的未来不仅包括先进技术的使用，而且还包括对健康和环境的关注。