Introduction for Special Section「Technology of supporting foods safety」

Abstract

　During the Napoleonic era in France, French Nicolas Appert developed sterilize and save foods, and he published ”Le livre de tous les menages, ou L'art de conserver pendant plusieurs annees, toutes les substances animalse et vegetales” (1810). At the time, Spontaneous generation theory was the most widely accepted idea, theafore his tecnology did not become populer in the world. Today, with 200 years having passed since then, various packaged containers such as canned food, plastic bottle, retort pouch are used in everyday life. In special section, maicroscopic organism heat sterilization, atmospheric discharge plasmas sanitizing method , small metallic contaminant detector, rapid thawing device, barrier enhancement technology for PET bottles, inkjet printer are explained.