Abstract
Effective antimicrobial (AM) packaging strategies can significantly extend the shelf life of food allowing efficiency in the food supply chain and enhancing the sustainability of food production. Shelf life extending technologies have the greatest impact for high-value, high-end foods such as meat products since their production is resource intensive. AM food packaging, enabled by recent developments in nanotechnology, is a promising concept for addressing some of the key issues of sustainable food packaging. This chapter will describe recent developments in commercialized or commercialization-oriented research on AM active packaging concepts; in particular, we will focus on AM solutions centered on the surface engineering of packaging materials. In particular, we will discuss the pros and cons of surface engineering technology in food packaging based on our experience with a block copolymer-based surface modification strategy of polymer substrates and will further discuss about the costs, practicalities, risks, benefits, and safety challenges that may arise on the route to their commercialization process.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Nanomaterials for Food Packaging |
| Subtitle of host publication | Materials, Processing Technologies, and Safety Issues |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Pages | 301-328 |
| Number of pages | 28 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780323512718 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780323512725 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2018 |
Keywords
- Active packaging
- Antimicrobial coating
- Antimicrobial packaging
- Block copolymer
- Food packaging
- Food spoilage
- Modified atmospheric packaging
- Shelf life
- Surface engineering
