Nanotechnology in Food Industry; Advances in Food processing, Packaging and Food Safety

Nanotechnology is emerging as a rapidly growing field with its wide application in science and technology for manufacturing of new materials at nanoscale level (Albrecht et al., 2006). This technology gained a tremendous impetus due to its capability of reformulating metals into new nanosized particles, with dimension less than 100 nm in size. Due to nanoparticle size, their physio-chemical properties drastically changes leading to broad spectrum of new applications. In recently years, huge advances in nanotechnology open up a new era in industrial technology. Majority of nanoparticles incorporated into products related to several fields (Benn and Westerhoff, 2008; Heinlaan et al., 2008; Li et al., 2008; Wokovich et al., 2009;