Natural food preservation method refers to application of naturally produced antimicrobial compounds that are obtained from plants, animals and microbes to prevent food spoilages microorganism, proliferation and growth of food borne pathogens in food and foods products. Now it is the time of growing interest of many researchers with the application of these natural antimicrobial compounds as sa...

In this paper, through the research on two-dimensional bar codes of food source tracking; a set of traceability tracking system was designed based on the two bar coding algorithm and decoding algorithms. This system could generate PDF417 code based on food production, logistics and transport, supermarket and other storage information. Consumers could identify PDF417 code through a client based ...

Food physical chemistry is considered to be a branch of Food chemistry[1][2] concerned with the study of both physical and chemical interactions in foods in terms of physical and chemical principles applied to food systems, as well as the applications of physical/chemical techniques and instrumentation for the study of foods.[3][4][5][6] This field encompasses the “physiochemical principles of ...

FROM AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE, FOOD IS EITHER difficult to get or difficult to eat. Humans lack the strength and speed of large carnivores and the specialized digestive track of herbivores. Indeed, the diet of early hominids was mostly limited to fruits and insects. For this reason, humans have long strived to develop technologies to improve food availability, digestibility, safety, transpor...

Salmonella spp. was the major cause of reported foodborne diseases in the last years in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, South of Brazil. Epidemiological data on salmonellosis, occurred in the period of 1997 to 1999 and supplied by the Division of Sanitary Surveillance (DVS/RS), were analysed according to the following factors: total number of confirmed outbreaks, number of people involved, outb...

India being an agricultural economy, packaging will play a prominent role in food related sector. Processed food sector will be a major purchaser of packaging supplies. Transportation of milk, food grains and commodities like tea, coffee, edible oil over long distances and under changing climatic conditions is a major challenge to the packaging industry. Fruits and vegetables are perishable and...

Global demands for increased food safety and quality assurance programmes, increased global competition, changing government rules and regulations, political and trade barriers, bioterrorism, and identity preservation requirements in global markets are affecting the world's food supply chain. To satisfy changing market demands, all suppliers in the food supply chain must adaptto these global is...