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Marine Nanofactories in Food Industry: Friend or Foe

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This book chapter introduces how marine Actinobacteria-inspired nanoparticles are used in the food industry. Food nanotechnology is a zone of rising intrigue, which leads to an entire universe of fresh substantial results for the nourishment and food business. These modules of the nanotechnology application and their functionalities at present led to the building of the sustenance, which includes alterations of the plastic material limitations, combining the dynamic segments that led to the practical qualities past those of routine dynamic bundling, and the detecting and motioning of important data. Nano food bundling or packaging materials may expand nourishment life, enhance sustenance well-being, inform buyers that nourishment is polluted or ruined, and repair the tears and secrete the additives to increase shelf life of the food materials. The role of nanotechnology and its abiding functionalities can be used to identify the specific microscopic organism in the bundling process or lead to more grounded flavours and to increase shade time and the well-being of the hindrances and their ill effects on food. The role of nanotechnology is to hold extraordinary guarantee to give advantages inside of sustenance items as well as around nourishment items. Indeed, nanotechnology presents new risks for the advancement in the nourishment business at a monstrous rate, yet vulnerability and well-being concerns are likewise rising. EU/WE/worldwide enactments that regulate the usage of nanotechnology functionalities in the sustenance are very small. Also, the enactment law of the present time is unsatisfactory for the instructions and specifications provided for nanotechnology. Bio-inspired nanoparticles is a recently emerging field in the nano world. Hence, marine Actinobacteria-based nanoparticle synthesis may play a major role in food industry.

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Karthik, L., Kirthi, A.V., Li, Z. (2017). Marine Nanofactories in Food Industry: Friend or Foe. In: Prasad, R., Kumar, V., Kumar, M. (eds) Nanotechnology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4678-0_4

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