The massive and uncontrolled use of food packaging derived from petroleum-based plastics has created a serious environmental problem. Hence, the industry needs to develop biodegradable polymers. Among many raw materials studied in literature, chitosan is one most abundant polysaccharides nature. Chitosan attracted attention due its non-toxicity, antimicrobial, antifungal properties. Because thi...

The food industry is continuously evolving through the application of innovative tools and ingredients towards more effective, safe, natural ecofriendly solutions to satisfy demands costumers. In this context, sources (i.e., leaves, seeds, peels or unused pulp) can entail a valuable source compounds, such as essential oils (EOs), with recognized antioxidant antimicrobial properties that be used...

The formulation of innovative packaging solutions, exerting a functional antimicrobial role in slowing down food spoilage, is expected to have a significant impact on the food industry, allowing both the maintenance of food safety criteria for longer periods and the reduction of food waste. Different materials are considered able to exert the required antimicrobial activity, among which are mat...

OBJECTIVES To investigate opposition to standardised tobacco packaging in the UK. To increase understanding of how transnational corporations are adapting to changes in their access to policymakers precipitated by Article 5.3 of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). DESIGN Case study web-based documentary analysis, using NVivo V.10. Examination of relationships between opponents...

in this research, the effect of active edible coating based on carbocymethyl cellulose (cmc) containing pomegranate peel extract (ppe) and rese essential oil (reo) and also vacuum packaging (vp) on chemical attributes and microbial quality of packaged pomegranate arils during 15 days storage at 5 °c have been studied. the weight loss was increased by increasing storage time. but all treatments ...

There is an increasing tendency to add natural antimicrobials of plant origin into food. The objective of this work was to develop a microbial sachet incorporated with allyl isothiocyanate (AIT), a volatile compound of plant origin, and to test its efficiency against growth of yeasts and molds, Staphylococcus sp. and psychrotrophic bacteria on sliced mozzarella cheese. Another objective was to ...

Herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1), the prototypic member of herpesviruses, employs a virally encoded molecular machine called terminase to package the viral double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) genome into a preformed protein shell. The terminase contains a large subunit that is thought to cleave concatemeric viral DNA during the packaging initiation and completion of each packaging cycle and supply energy...