Research on Sustainable Food Packaging Technology
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Packaging and Preservation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 November 2024) | Viewed by 230
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biomass residues; natural biomolecules; green functionalisation
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Interests: biorefinery; bio-based materials; packaging
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Food industries have a great global economic impact, producing large quantities and varieties of products, but often with recurring food safety problems due to the normal deterioration of or attacks against the environment (microorganisms, insects, traces of chemicals). The security and reduction of postharvest losses (fruits and vegetables) and degradation (meat, fish, and dairy products) along supply channels becomes a key challenge for society and the economy. In this regard, this Special Issue seeks to disseminate to the scientific community and to industrial stakeholders new innovative technologies in the development of food packaging that ensure the durability of food, and even offer smart packaging with active properties (antioxidants, probiotics, organoleptics...) that improve the appearance and presentation of food. Thus, the application of innovative technologies in the production of sustainable food packaging, the use of bio-based materials of renewable origin or with improved properties, or the design of new additives used during food storage are topics considered in this Special Issue, which remains open to other lines of research associated with improving the durability and economic/logistics of the food supply chain.
Dr. Araceli García
Dr. Eduardo Espinosa Víctor
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- edible coatings
- bio-resourced polymers
- food additives
- antimicrobial protection
- postharvest food losses
- food safety
- food durability
- food value chain
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