Quality (philosophy)

Marketing

Radio-frequency identification

Engineering

Philosophy

Biology

Identification (biology)

Embedded system

Computer security

Telecommunications

Computer science

Botany

Traceability

Risk analysis (engineering)

Business

Food packaging

Mechanical engineering

Cold chain

Epistemology

Supply chain

Operations management

Medicine

Software engineering

Active packaging

Purchasing

Pathology

Food safety

Future Foods

The global pandemic COVID-19 has led to an increase in the number of people purchasing food online, which has brought to a higher demand on the food supply chain. Such as the need to collect more information related to food safety and quality in real-time. Strengthening management of food logistics information flow can reduce food loss and waste and bring better quality and safety of food to consumers. In this review, the importance and applicability of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology to smart food packaging are described. This study emphasizes the recent advancement of the RFID tags in humidity, temperature, gas, pH, integrity, and traceability sensor applications in connection with food packaging. RFID sensors are more suitable for smart packaging both in terms of sensing ability and data transmission. A simpler, low-cost, more robust and less power-demanding sensors network is the development direction of smart packaging in the future. Chipless RFID sensors have the potential to achieve these functions. But it still faces many challenges to be overcome. For example, biocompatible, cost, reading range, multi-tag collision, multi-parameter sensors, recycling issues, security and privacy of RFID system should be solved.

RFID-based sensing in smart packaging for food applications: A review