Chitin/chitosan - safe, ecofriendly packaging materials with multiple potential uses.

Srinivasa, P. C. and Tharanathan, R. N. (2007) Chitin/chitosan - safe, ecofriendly packaging materials with multiple potential uses. Food Reviews International, 23 (1). pp. 53-72.

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Abstract

Potential application of chitin and chitosan from shellfish wastes in environmentally friendly packaging materials is reviewed with reference to: importance of packaging material properties for storage of foods; plastics and pollution (handling of post-consumer plastics wastes by landfill, incineration, depolymerization and recycling, ecological issues); biodegradable polymers as packaging materials (polymers produced from lactic acid, polymers produced by microorganisms, polysaccharides of animal origin, such as chitin/chitosan from shellfish wastes); and characteristics of chitin/chitosan (sources, isolation, properties, and potential applications in waste/effluent purification, paper finishing, solid-state batteries, cosmetics, control of enzymic browning in fruits, clarification and deacidification of fruit juices, packaging films, pharmaceuticals, agriculture and antimicrobial agents).

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	ECOLOGY-; PACKAGING-MATERIALS; POLYSACCHARIDES-; REVIEWS-; SHELLFISH-; WASTES-; CHITIN-; CHITOSAN-; ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY-PACKAGING-MATERIALS
Subjects:	600 Technology > 08 Food technology > 06 Preservation and Storage > 06 Packaging 600 Technology > 08 Food technology > 28 Meat, Fish & Poultry
Divisions:	Dept. of Biochemistry
Depositing User:	Users 16 not found.
Date Deposited:	26 Jul 2011 11:38
Last Modified:	25 Apr 2012 10:20
URI:	http://ir.cftri.res.in/id/eprint/8089

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