The Department of Food Packaging and Storage Technology is a key department that not only supports all academic programmes but also offers special technological support to the food sector for packaging and storage of all food commodities. Providing nutritious and healthy food to humans, and preservation of nutrition are huge challenges these days since consumer awareness about food safety and quality has increased. The department has a food packaging laboratory with all the required state of the art equipments for analyzing the important physical, mechanical, barrier and biodegradation properties of food packaging materials like Universal Testing Machine, Vibration Tester, Cobb Tester, Drop Tester, Box Compression Tester, Bursting Strength Tester, Oxygen/Gas/Water Vapor Permeability Tester, Head Space Gas Analyzer, Bopp Shear Strength Tester, Vacuum Leak Tester and Cof Tester.

This department works on storage technologies for enhancing the shelf life of various commodities including safe storage guidelines for food grains, various chemical and nonchemical methods for the management, disinfestation of stored product insects in cereals, pulses, oilseeds and value-added products. The department also conducts training programmes on food storage and take up need based sponsored research projects for the industries on identification & disinfestation of food products. The department regularly undertakes consultancy services for analyzing the presence of insects and their life stages in foods; to design suitable packaging and evaluation of packaging materials for shelf-life extension.