Nanotechnology-enabled Food Safety: Innovative Solutions for Agricultural Development, Smart Packaging, Delivery Systems, and Food Security
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Nanotechnology is playing an important role to develop modern solutions in food safety and agriculture that make it highly efficient as well as safe. This paper is aimed at dissecting how nanotechnology can be used in smart packaging, delivery systems and food security in agriculture. Smart packaging instills such features like increased shelf life, food safety, and real-time monitoring of food quality when nanomaterials are incorporated into the packaging system. Hi-tech delivery systems made possible through nanotechnology improve the effectiveness of agrochemicals, minimize the adverse effects on the environment, and reclaim the principles of sustainable farming. In addition, nanotechnology helps to protect food from spoilage as well as enhance crop quality, yield, and pest resistance, and upgrade the nutritional value of foods. Combining the results of the current state of nanotechnology development and its future prospects, this paper recognizes nanotechnology as a powerful tool for the agricultural industry and a secure food supply chain.
Source: Nanotechnology Perceptions
Authors: Zhaojie Chen, Abdullah Al Hossain Newaz
Institutions: Hong Kong Polytechnic University, University of Bridgeport
Language: English
Subfield: Biomedical Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405233011