Perspectives for chitosan based antimicrobial films in food applications

Food Chemistry

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1173-1182

  Dutta, P K ^a   Tripathi, Shipra ^a   Mehrotra, G K ^a   Dutta, Joydeep ^b  

^a MOTILAL NEHRU NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b RELIANCE LIFE SCIENCES PVT LTD   (India)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial activity; Bioactive films; Chitosan; Food packaging material; Review

Indexed keywords

EID: 60249097029     PISSN: 03088146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2008.11.047     Document Type: Review

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