Food packaging industry presents one of the fastest growing industries nowadays. New
trends in this industry, which include reducing food as well as packaging waste, improved
preservation of food and prolonged shelf-life together with substitution of petrochemical
sources with renewable ones are leading to development of this industrial area in diverse
directions. This multidisciplinary challenge is set up both in front of food and material
scientists. Nanotechnology is recently answering to these challenges, with different solutions …

Food packaging plays a key role in offering safe and quality food products to consumers by
providing protection and extending shelf life. Food packaging is a multifaceted field based
on food science and engineering, microbiology, and chemistry, all of which have contributed
significantly to maintaining physicochemical attributes such as color, flavor, moisture
content, and texture of foods and their raw materials, in addition to ensuring freedom from
oxidation and microbial deterioration. Antimicrobial food packaging systems, in addition to …