Bioactive packaging technologies with chitosan as a natural preservative agent for extended shelf-life food products

Modified Atmosphere and Active Packaging Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 689-734

  Giatrakou, Vasiliki I ^a   Savvaidis, Ioannis N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD PRODUCTS; PACKAGING; PACKAGING MACHINES; PACKAGING MATERIALS;

ACTIVE PACKAGING SYSTEMS; CONSUMER DEMANDS; EXTENDED SHELF LIVES; FOOD INDUSTRIES; NATURAL ANTIOXIDANTS; NATURAL PRESERVATIVES; PACKAGING TECHNOLOGIES; QUALITY LEVELS;

FOOD PRESERVATION;

EID: 85041791729     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/b12174     Document Type: Chapter

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