Clean Technologies in Food Processing and Waste Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Food".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 505
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Interests: agroindustrial wastes; antifungal activity; phenolic antioxidants; edible coatings and films; essential oils
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Interests: phytochemistry; bioactive compounds; extraction methods; functional foods
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We recently ran a Special Issue entitled "Clean Technologies in Food Processing and Waste Management" that matched your lines of research, and would like to cordially invite you to publish your most recent research as a full-length or review article.
The growing demand for food, caused by the more than eight million habitants on the planet, fast-paced lifestyles and long working hours, has generated a high growth in the production of ready-to-eat and minimally processed foods. However, they must be innocuous, with a long shelf life, free of synthetic additives and be sensorially acceptable. This generates greater challenges in the efficiency of production processes, which reduce or eliminate the amount of contaminants, achieve an integral use of raw materials through the revalorization of agroindustrial wastes and use clean processing technologies. For this reason, it is necessary to generate policies and practices that promote the combination of technologies and innovation in order to achieve a circular economy throughout food processing and the supply chain through the use of clean processing technologies and waste revalorization.
With this Special Issue, "Clean Technologies in Food Processing and Waste Management", we aim to explore, examine and propose clean technologies, as well as efficient management strategies, for the treatment of agroindustrial waste, in order to generate a culture of integral use through the circular economy in food processing systems. For this reason, it is important to verify which are the main waste disposal problems, which processing stages produce waste, how the waste is treated and explore possible alternatives through clean technologies to reduce and/or eliminate agroindustrial waste, revalue it or incorporate it back into the value chain.
This Special Issue is specifically dedicated to works related to food processing, clean technologies and the use, management and approach of agroindustrial wastes for their revalorization and integration into the food chain. Based on your expertise and recent publications, we believe that you would provide an excellent contribution.
Prof. Dr. Romeo Rojas
Prof. Dr. Guillermo Cristian Guadalupe Martínez Ávila
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- agroindustrial waste revalorization
- circular economy
- clean technologies
- food processing
- green chemistry
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