Meat packaging is critical for protecting any type of meat product while ensuring hygiene, food safety, and nutritional value. The right meat packing products will preserve color, freshness, and texture while preventing oxygen exposure and microbial contamination.
Today’s innovative packaging technologies allow for the development of comprehensive packaging systems that meet higher standards for quality, preservation, and sustainability. Here, we will go over the top three reasons why meat packaging is important, as well as the types of meat packaging machines Point Five Packaging offers.
1. Ensuring Food Safety
High-quality meat packaging is the only solution to preventing physical product damage and tampering. Durable, tamper-evident packaging materials let consumers know if a meat product has been opened before consumption, resulting in improved food safety. Meat packaging further ensures food safety by preventing the introduction of harmful microorganisms and other bacteria that could cause food-borne illness.
2. Extending Shelf Life
One of the biggest benefits of quality meat packaging is that it helps to prolong shelf life. With the help of advanced packaging technology, you can better protect meat products from the following:
- Bacterial or external contamination
- Oxidation and rancidity
- Moisture loss
- Other elements that lead to quality degradation
3. Maintaining Product Quality
Meat packaging plays an important role in ensuring overall product quality. This is achieved in the following ways:
- Preserving taste. Maintaining taste can be challenging when transporting meat products from one location to another. Quality meat packaging can solve this challenge, helping to keep meat products looking and tasting better.
- Preventing physical damage. Most consumers don’t want to purchase bruised or battered meat products. As such, using robust meat packaging is critical for preventing product damage during handling and transportation.
Meat Packaging Solutions from Point Five Packaging
Point Five Packaging understands the importance of quality meat packaging and offers a variety of tray sealing machines designed to preserve and protect meat products. Our solutions include:
Top Sealing
Top-sealing tray seal film is highly flexible. It is heat-sealed to the tops of food trays, creating a secure barrier against oxygen, contaminants, and moisture. This helps to protect meat freshness and prolong shelf life.
Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP)
This technology removes oxygen from food packaging, typically through the use of a vacuum pump, before back filling the void with inert gases like carbon dioxide or nitrogen. MAP machines seal meat trays with high-barrier films that stop the gas from escaping while preventing oxygen from re-entering the container. Extracting the oxygen slows the growth of bacteria and mold and prevents oxidation, extending shelf life by over 50%.
Vacuum Skin Packaging (VSP)
VSP machines cover meat products with a transparent film before using a vacuum to remove the air from the package. This produces a tight seal that conforms to the product, resulting in improved visibility, enhanced protection against damage or contaminants, and prolonged shelf life.
Tray Stretch Sealing
This type of packaging machinery applies stretchable film to the sides of food trays, even if the product protrudes above the tray line. Compared to conventional stretch overwrap techniques, tray stretch sealing creates a hermetic seal that won’t leak and requires much less material.
Reach Out to Point Five Packaging Today!
Meat packaging is the first line of defense against contamination, physical damage, and spoilage. By investing in advanced food packaging machines, you can efficiently package meats with durable, protective materials that will extend shelf life and preserve product quality.
At Point Five Packaging, we offer state-of-the-art packaging machinery and materials for customers across the globe. Backed by our extensive partner network, we have the necessary resources to provide the exact food packaging solution you need. We’ll work with you to determine the most effective packaging option that will improve productivity, reduce operational costs, and increase profits. Additionally, our rapid concept-to-market capabilities allow us to bring your packaging concepts to life with faster turnaround times.
To learn more about our selection of meat packaging materials and equipment, contact us or request information today.