Analyze the future of biodegradable food packaging with this cutting-edge overview

Packaging plays an essential role in the production of food and its movement through the global supply chain. Food packaging has been a significant site of innovation recently, allowing consumers better access to natural and organic foods, extended shelf lives, and more. However, food packaging has become an increasingly serious environmental hazard, with the result that biodegradable food packaging has become a vital and growing area of research.

Natural Materials for Food Packaging Application provides a thorough and detailed introduction to natural packaging and its applications in food transportation. Treating both recent innovations and prospective future developments, it provides readers with extensive insights into the current state of research in this field. The result is a volume designed to meet the aspirational needs of a sustainable food industry.

Natural Materials for Food Packaging Application readers will also find:

• Detailed treatment of biodegradable packaging materials including thermo-plastic starch, polybutylene succinate, and more
• Discussion of subjects including chitosan-based food packaging films, clay-based packaging films, and more
• An authorial team with vast expertise in the field of biological polymer production

Natural Materials for Food Packaging Applications is a useful reference for chemists, materials scientists, and food scientists, as well as for any industry professionals working in food distribution and the food supply chain.

Jyotishkumar Parameswaranpillai, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Science at Alliance University, Karnataka, India. He has postdoctoral experience in laboratories on multiple continents, and has published enormously widely on biological polymer research subjects.

Aswathy Jayakumar, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Food and Nutrition at Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea. She received the 2019 Best Paper Award at the Kerala Science Congress, and her research concerns the functional biology of endophytic microorganisms.

E. K. Radhakrishnan, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the School of Biosciences and Joint Director of the Inter-University Centre for Organic Farming and Sustainable Agriculture, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India. He has published extensively on plant microbe interactions, polymer-based nanocomposites for food packaging, and related subjects.

Suchart Siengchin, PhD, is a Lecturer and Researcher in the Thai-German Graduate School of Engineering, King Mongkut's University of Technology, North Bangkok, Thailand (KMUTNB). He is a three-time winner of the Outstanding Researcher Award at KMUTNB, and has published and presented extensive research on engineering and materials science subjects.

Sabarish Radoor, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Researcher at King Mongkut's University of Technology, North Bangkok, Thailand (KMUTNB). He has published roughly 25 research papers.