Antimicrobial food packaging: Potential and pitfalls

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue JUN, 2015, Pages

  Malhotra, Bhanu ^a   Keshwani, Anu ^a   Kharkwal, Harsha ^a  

^a AMITY UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial agents; Antimicrobial food packaging; Food safety; Food spoilage; Shelf life improvement

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; BACTERIOCIN; CARBOXYLIC ACID; DYE; ESSENTIAL OIL; FUNGICIDE; IRON; LYSOZYME; MICROBIAL ENZYME; MILK PROTEIN; NISIN; POLYMER;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL COUNT; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD BIOTECHNOLOGY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD PACKAGING; FOOD QUALITY; FOOD SAFETY; GROWTH INHIBITION; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS; REVIEW; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHIMURIUM; SHELF LIFE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84936997742     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00611     Document Type: Review

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