Antimicrobial Food Packaging

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.

• 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

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.