Search results for "Engineered nanomaterials"
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Nanotechnologies for Active and Intelligent Food Packaging: Opportunities and Risks
2017
This chapter focuses on providing a comprehensive review on the current development of nanotechnology in the field of active and intelligent packaging for food. Systems devoted to intelligent food packaging require easy-to-read, cheap, robust, and safe systems that are able to provide on time information. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) considers that evaluations of safety, effectiveness, public health impact, or regulatory status of nanotechnology products should consider any unique properties and behaviors that the application of nanotechnology may impart. The lack of regulatory support providing standardized risk assessments of engineered nanomaterials (ENM) through integration of haz…
Challenges in the determination of engineered nanomaterials in foods
2016
Detection, characterization, and quantification of engineering nanomaterials (ENMs) in foods is still a pending issue that needs to be tackle to protect consumers and to fix some related aspects (e.g. labelling or control). The global challenge for the analytical sciences is that ENMs are a new sort of analytes, involving both chemical (composition, mass and number concentration) and physical information (e.g. size, shape, aggregation). In this critical review, we evaluate and compare the procedures involved in the analytical methods and studies developed thus far for the identification and quantification of ENMs in food. We discuss advantages and limitation as well as prospects. We pointed…