Active and Eco-Friendly Antimicrobial Packaging Systems for Food Safety
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Packaging and Preservation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 350
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microbiology; multidrug resistance; essential oils; bacterial biofilms; bacteriocin and probiotics
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: microbiology; multidrug resistance; essential oils; bacterial biofilm; bacteriocin and probiotics
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: antibiotics; antibiotic resistance; antimicrobials; microbial molecular biology; bacterial antibiotic resistance; bacteriology; antibacterial activity
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Food-borne diseases still represent a widespread health and economic problem, but even these illnesses are preventable. Interventions in food production, processing, and storage can help prevent food from becoming contaminated with bacteria. In this context, the development of emerging technologies, such as active and intelligent, eco-friendly, and efficient antimicrobial packaging has been accelerated significantly to extend the shelf life of foods. The latest research on antimicrobial active packaging materials has focused on combinations of substrates based on renewable and biodegradable polysaccharides augmented by natural antimicrobial agents (essential oils, plant extracts, chitosan, proteins, bacteriocins, and probiotics). Furthermore, the rapid identification of pathogenic and deteriorating bacteria on surfaces and materials used for food production becomes even more fundamental as a preventive strategy to accompany active antimicrobial packaging. These detection systems must be easy to use, portable, and economical. This Special Issue welcomes original research and reviews covering, but not limited to, the use of active packaging and new techniques for controlling and improving the microbiological quality of foods.
Dr. Ramona Iseppi
Prof. Dr. Patrizia Messi
Moreno Bondi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pathogens
- natural substances
- shelf life
- antimicrobials
- active packaging
- spoilage bacteria
- food
- safety
- new detection methods
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