Potential Uses of Nano Technology Potential Uses of Nano Technology in Food Industryin Food Industry

ByByM.H.Abd El-SalamM.H.Abd El-Salam

National Research Centre, EgyptNational Research Centre, Egypt

Potential Uses of Nano Technology Potential Uses of Nano Technology in Food Industryin Food Industry

ByByM.H.Abd El-SalamM.H.Abd El-Salam

National Research Centre, EgyptNational Research Centre, Egypt

What is Nanotechnology• Nanotechnology

focuses on characterization, fabrication and manipulation of biological and non-biological structures smaller than 100 nm.

Nano food technology

• Nano food technology is considered as one of the most promising area of scientific research and applications.

• "Nano food technology is here to stay and already forms the basis of a number of commercially available products" (IFST, 2006).

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Potential Applications of Nanotechnology in Food

Industry• It is expected that

nanotchnology shall find uses in Food industry in the near future through several direct and indirect applications.

• As for indirect applications, the Food industry shall benefit from progress in other areas such as microelectronics, packaging materials and nano-biosensors.

Components of a Biosensor

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Detector

• Marked progress has been achieved in nano-biosensors for the detection of different pathogens and some of them offer the possibility for detecting several pathogens in the same time.

• Several studies have showed the validity of these sensors in detecting pathogens and their toxins in Food products.

• This area will be one of the major areas in

nanotechnology applications in dairy industry in the near future.

• Several developments have been achieved in food packaging, particularly plastics containing oxygen barrier of nano-sized clay (Brody, 2006).

• These materials can be used in packaging of Food products especially those with long shelf-life.

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