About this Research Topic
Food packaging plays an essential role in food preservation. There is an increasing demand for higher quality and safer foods from consumers. Recently, there is also a growing interest about the use of packaging that is environmentally friendly. Fulfilling all these needs requires the development of new safe and sustainable materials.
New and sustainable materials are also being used in the elaboration of active systems.
Bio-based and/or biodegradable materials are being promoted as a substitute to petroleum-based materials for food packaging applications. It’s safety needs to be evaluated since components of the material can be released into food, and they may have a negative impact on consumer health.
The identification of chemicals migrating from the packaging materials is an extremely difficult task because usually, in some cases, the chemical composition of the formulations used in the manufacture of these materials is not fully known. Moreover, unknown compounds such as, degradation products, reaction products, etc. can also be present in the final product and may migrate into the foodstuff.
To approach this challenging task, non-targeted methodologies using high resolution mass spectrometry are being applied.
The last trends in active packaging technology entails the development of nanomaterials with enhanced properties, the application of nanotechnology for the encapsulation of the active ingredients, the extraction of bioactive compounds from by-products from the agro-food industry and also the use of bio-based materials.
The objective of this article collection is to gather scientific articles or reviews reflecting the latest innovations and developments in the food packaging field, focusing particularly on the chemical aspects.
We welcome Original Research, Review, Mini Review and Perspective articles on themes including, but not limited to:
• Chemical safety of food packaging materials
• Analytical methods for the identification of unknown compounds in food contact materials
• Risk assessment of chemicals transferred from packaging materials
• Migration studies
• Chemical safety and characterization of novel materials
• Development of new active systems
• Nanoencapsulation of bioactive compounds
• Evaluation and characterization of active food packaging
• Chemical characterization of by-products from the agro-food industry
• New advances in the field of oxygen or humidity sensors in the packaging
New and sustainable materials are also being used in the elaboration of active systems.
Bio-based and/or biodegradable materials are being promoted as a substitute to petroleum-based materials for food packaging applications. It’s safety needs to be evaluated since components of the material can be released into food, and they may have a negative impact on consumer health.
The identification of chemicals migrating from the packaging materials is an extremely difficult task because usually, in some cases, the chemical composition of the formulations used in the manufacture of these materials is not fully known. Moreover, unknown compounds such as, degradation products, reaction products, etc. can also be present in the final product and may migrate into the foodstuff.
To approach this challenging task, non-targeted methodologies using high resolution mass spectrometry are being applied.
The last trends in active packaging technology entails the development of nanomaterials with enhanced properties, the application of nanotechnology for the encapsulation of the active ingredients, the extraction of bioactive compounds from by-products from the agro-food industry and also the use of bio-based materials.
The objective of this article collection is to gather scientific articles or reviews reflecting the latest innovations and developments in the food packaging field, focusing particularly on the chemical aspects.
We welcome Original Research, Review, Mini Review and Perspective articles on themes including, but not limited to:
• Chemical safety of food packaging materials
• Analytical methods for the identification of unknown compounds in food contact materials
• Risk assessment of chemicals transferred from packaging materials
• Migration studies
• Chemical safety and characterization of novel materials
• Development of new active systems
• Nanoencapsulation of bioactive compounds
• Evaluation and characterization of active food packaging
• Chemical characterization of by-products from the agro-food industry
• New advances in the field of oxygen or humidity sensors in the packaging
Keywords: food packaging materials, migration, risk assessment, active food packaging, nanoencapsulation
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