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Antimicrobial Food Packaging

  • 2nd Edition - February 26, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Jorge Barros-Velazquez
  • Language: English

Antimicrobial Food Packaging, Second Edition continues to be an essential resource covering all aspects in the development and application of novel antimicrobial films to all types… Read more

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Description

Antimicrobial Food Packaging, Second Edition continues to be an essential resource covering all aspects in the development and application of novel antimicrobial films to all types of packaged foods. The book is organized in six parts to include the main backgrounds and frameworks of the topic, types of packaging materials and packaging systems and the migration of packaging elements into food, the most relevant established and emerging technologies for microbial detection in food systems, the development and application of antimicrobial packaging strategies to specific food sectors, and the most promising combinational approaches, also including combinational edible antimicrobial coatings.

Useful to a wide audience of researchers, scientists, and students, the new edition brings five new chapters that include the latest information on smart packaging for monitoring food quality, postbiotics in antimicrobial packaging applications, emerging hydrocolloids from food processing waste or novel antimicrobial packaging strategies in dairy products.

Key features

  • Provides basic information on the potential use of antimicrobial agents in food packaging and films and describes the applicability of such techniques to the food industry
  • Discusses the uses of natural and synthetic compounds for food safety and shelf life extension
  • Presents information on monitoring microbial activity for the detection of foodborne pathogens using biosensors and other advanced molecular techniques
  • Offers food safety: good manufacturing practices (GMPs), sanitation standard operating procedures (SSOPs), and hazard analysis and critical control point (HACCP)
  • Includes updated research on resistant foodborne pathogens and fungal, bacterial and viral food contamination

Readership

Industry and administration scientists and professionals working in food technology, food packaging, food safety, food control, innovative food science, food microbiology, etc.Graduate and post-graduate students, senior scientific staff from academia in food science, food microbiology, food technology, food chemistry

Table of contents

1. The Nature and Extent of Foodborne Disease

2. Resistant and Emergent Pathogens in Food Products

3. Bacterial Contamination in Food Production

4. Fungal Contamination in Packaged Foods

5. Viral Contamination of Food

6. The Downside of Antimicrobial Packaging: Migration of Packaging Elements into Food

7. Packaging Material in the Food Industry

8. Effect of Packaging Systems on the Inactivation of Microbiological Agents

9. Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Foodborne Bacteria Related to National and International Resistance-Monitoring Programs

10. Food Safety: Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOP), Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP)

11. Control of Microbial Activity Using Antimicrobial Packaging

12. Detection of Foodborne Pathogens Using Biosensors

13. Detection of Foodborne Pathogens Using DNA Arrays

14. Detection of Foodborne Pathogens Using Nanoparticles. Advantages and Trends

15. Detection of Foodborne Pathogens Using MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry

16. Industrial Applications: Regulatory Issues and Life Cycle Assessment of Food Packaging

17. Antimicrobial Packaging for Meat Products

18. Antimicrobial Packaging for Fresh and Minimally Processed Fruits and Vegetables

19. Antimicrobial Packaging for Poultry

20. Antimicrobial Packaging for Seafood

21. Antimicrobial Packaging of Beverages

22. Antimicrobial Active Packaging Systems Based on EVOH Copolymers

23. Ethyl Lauroyl Arginate (LAE): Antimicrobial Activity and Applications in Food Systems

24. Ethyl Lauroyl Arginate (LAE): Usage and Potential in Antimicrobial Packaging

25. Volatile Compounds Usage in Active Packaging Systems

26. Carvacrol-Based Films: Usage and Potential in Antimicrobial Packaging

27. Gelatin-Based Nanocomposite Films: Potential Use in Antimicrobial Active Packaging

28. Smart Nanohydrogels for Controlled Release of Food Preservatives

29. Antimicrobial Food Packaging Based on Biodegradable Materials

30. Pullulan: A Suitable Biopolymer for Antimicrobial Food Packaging Applications

31. Use of Metal Nanoparticles for Active Packaging Applications

32. Silver-Based Antibacterial and Virucide Biopolymers: Usage and Potential in Antimicrobial Packaging

33. Antimicrobial Food Packaging Incorporated with Triclosan: Potential Uses and Restrictions

34. Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles for Food Packaging Applications

35. Antimicrobial Spices: Use in Antimicrobial Packaging

36. Pediocin Applications in Antimicrobial Food Packaging Systems

37. Casein and Chitosan Polymers: Use in Antimicrobial Packaging

38. Multifunctional Films, Blends, and Nanocomposites Based on Chitosan: Use in Antimicrobial Packaging

39. Cinnamaldehyde and Eugenol: Use in Antimicrobial Packaging

40. Enzybiotics: Application in Food Packaging

41. Zein and Its Composites and Blends with Natural Active Compounds: Development of Antimicrobial Films for Food Packaging

42. Casein-Based Zataria multiflora Boiss Films: Use in Antimicrobial Packaging

43. Antimicrobial Peptides from Bacillus spp.: Use in Antimicrobial Packaging

44. Chitosan-Oregano Essential Oil Blends Use as Antimicrobial Packaging Material

45. Thymol: Use in Antimicrobial Packaging

46. Organic Acids: Usage and Potential in Antimicrobial Packaging

47. Combinational Approaches for Antimicrobial Packaging: Chitosan and Oregano Oil

48. Combinational Approaches for Antimicrobial Packaging: Lysozyme and Lactoferrin

49. Combinational Approaches for Antimicrobial Packaging: Natamycin and Nisin

50. Combinational Approaches for Antimicrobial Packaging: Pectin and Cinnamon Leaf Oil

51. Combinational Approaches for Antimicrobial Packaging: Bivalve Shell Waste-Derived Material and Silver

52. Combinational Edible Antimicrobial Films and Coatings

Product details

  • Edition: 2
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 19, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Jorge Barros-Velazquez

Dr. Jorge Barros-Velázquez has won several awards in his field for outstanding contributions to research and academia. He has published in many journals and books and serves as the editor of Food and Bioprocess Technology, one of the top international scientific journals in the field of food science and technology. He has led more than 30 scientific projects on food microbiology and food safety and participated in another 15 projects. He is member of the Editorial Board of, among others, the following journals: Microorganisms, Journal of Food Quality, Animals, Journal of Chemistry, and Recent Patents on Biotechnology. His current research interests include the development of biopreservation strategies for seafood and other animal foods, these including the use of lactic acid bacteria and their bacteriocins, natural organic acids, essential oils and algae extracts.
Affiliations and expertise
College of Pharmacy/School of Veterinary Sciences, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

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