Non-linear learning to design responsible food packaging

Steward OUADI , Olivier VITRAC

contacts steward.ouadi@agroparistech.fr, olivier.vitrac@agroparistech.fr

University of Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, UMR 0782 SayFood, Massy, France

EU Erasmus+ Programme (contracts 2017-1-FR01-KA202-037441, 2022-FR01-KA220-HED-000023509)

Thursday, June 22, 2023

Content

Easing Tensions Between Food Engineering and Civil Society: What Balanced and Effective Approach?

A suggestion: Education

A global trend: "Plastic, No thanks!"

But contradictory point of views

A global trend: "Plastic, No thanks!"

But contradictory point of views

Globally, only 33 million tonnes (Mt), or 9% of the 353 Mt of plastic waste, were recycled in 2019 (global plastics use doubled since 2000)

OECD figures | POLICY HIGHLIGHTS | Global Plastics Outlook Economic Drivers, Environmental Impacts and Policy Options | 2022 |

Globally, only 33 million tonnes (Mt), or 9% of the 353 Mt of plastic waste, were recycled in 2019 (global plastics use doubled since 2000)

OECD figures | POLICY HIGHLIGHTS | Global Plastics Outlook Economic Drivers, Environmental Impacts and Policy Options | 2022 |

OECD projections

OECD countries + China = 66% of global use) packaging (31%), construction (17%) and transportation (12%) sectors

Food Engineering: Innovation or Concern?

A global trend in food engineering: the convergence to one health

How to cope with environmental and societal concerns? Are the problems more intricate than initially thought?

A global trend in food engineering: the convergence to one health

How to cope with environmental and societal concerns? Are the problems more intricate than initially thought?

How far should we transform food and for what purposes?

Example of chips, after The Food That Built America | S2.E06 (May 16th 2021) | Chip Dynasties (re-edition O. Vitrac)

Herman Lay takes regional and small-time chips business to a national scale with his cutting-edge sales techniques and world-changing packaging technology, while a rival innovator invents a new kind of snack chip that will challenge Lay's crown.

A typical example of study to improve the nutritional value of fried products

Modeling of oil dripping during deep-frying

New highlights to reduce oil uptake in fried products drastically

Food Packaging: Benefactor or Hidden Threat?

THE NEXT CHALLENGE: FOOD SAFETY vs. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Reconciling contradictory points of view, but how? Via political science?

Virgin vs. recycled polypropylene (GCxGC)

GCxGC-FID analyses of an extract of virgin granules (Grob, 2018) and degradation of irgafos 168 (Yang, 2018)

Key problems identified in EU regulation of Food Contact Materials (FCM)

DG-SANTE, Workshop Jan 20, 2021 | FCM = Food Contact Materials

The confirmed contradiction

Regulation proposal on packaging and packaging waste (Draft Nov 30, 2022)

amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 and Directive (EU) 2019/904, and repealing Directive 94/62/EC

PREPARING OUR POST-PLASTIC FUTURE

Food safety constraints: an obstacle to the ecological transition, a contradiction, an opportunity?

What are recycled fibers

JUSTIFICATION: ORIENTING STREAMS

Securing critical applications (all recycled streams are no longer equivalent)

Enhancing Outcomes through Education, Continuous Training, and International Collaboration

FITNESS 1.0: ERASMUS+ Programme ref. 2017-1-FR01-KA202-037441 (7 partners)

FITNESS 2.0: ERASMUS+ Programme ref. 2022-FR01-KA220-HED-000023509 (13 partners)

FitNESS stands for Food packaging open courseware for higher education and staff of companies

A collaborative platform

A non-centralized architecture

Transitional platform URL

The Content of FITNESS

FitNESS Pillars

  • A ✅ validated content (quality, rigor, and openness) covering all essential aspects of food packaging for two levels (novice and advanced);

  • An 🔓 open-source distribution format, which can be read on any terminal and even as a PowerPoint replacement product for teaching classrooms. All interactive and non-interactive WEB documents are supported and can be run with or without a server.

  • A 🔍search engine adapted to blended-learning education.

Main features

It is not PowerPoint, Word, there is no central server, you can download and run it on your PC as us. Use this link to download the entire platform.

What can I learn? Almost anything on food packaging…

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What can I learn? Almost anything on food packaging…

What can I learn? Almost anything on food packaging…

  • Their 🏭 production, 🚮 collection and ♻️ recycling is also impacting the 🌱environment.

  • They are essential to the 🧃preservation of food, ⛑️food safety and 🥡 food convenience.

  • Coercive ⚖️ laws : 🚫Single Use Plastics Directive (EU) 2019/904/EC, ⛔ French anti-waste law N°2002-105...

  • None of the proposed lecture contains the 🔢 solution, but the platform FITNess provides the only 💡 sensible answer to this 🚩complex issue.

It is necessary to educate oneself, to complete one's education on these complex issues and to mobilize scattered and interdisciplinary knowledge.

What can I learn? Almost anything on food packaging…

As most of the contributors are also scientists and researchers, last results from research are presented as well as more standard concepts.

no functional barrier with functional barrier

Examples

go to the lecture

| EXAMPLE | go to the Syllabus entry Panarama of food packaging

go to the lecture go to the lecture

| EXAMPLE | Test it yourself: common>S1>U1.1>part1 (Panorama of Food Packaging)

go to the video page go to the video page

| EXAMPLE | Watch the available videos (Panorama of Food Packaging)

FITNESS 2.0: an AI-powered platform

FitNESS 2 new features

  • Multiple mirrors: FITNESS 1 (AgroParisTech), FITNESS 1 (Zagreb University), FITNESS 2 (AgroParisTech, work in progress). Others in discussion: Agro Dijon Institute, Michigan State University

  • Non linear training / learning: slides are based on your preferences and answers e.g : example 1, example 2, example 3

  • an AI will guide you to adapt the future content to your knowledge

  • User authentication based on unique key, possibility to recover a previous state

  • Possibility to set up standard tests (no server side) for professionals and students

  • New interactive case studies, including simulation

  • Still open source using GitHub, cloneable, free, no central server, no tracking

A major release is expected every 6 months.

The New Viewer who Knows You

Content contributors

alphabetic order, contributors from 13 European Institutions

Development team

  • Engineering and design: Olivier Vitrac, PhD., Habilitation, senior scientist INRAE

  • Javascript, HTML5: Steward Ouadi, software engineer AgroParisTech

We are scientists, visit us , watch our last talks

Development team

  • We are part of the modeling and computational engineering group of the Research Unit 0782 SayFood (University of Paris-Saclay, AgroParisTech, INRAE)

We are scientists, visit us, watch our last talks