Active packaging technologies offer new opportunities for the food industry, in the
preservation of foods. Important active packaging systems currently known to date, including …

Nitrite is consumed in the diet, through vegetables and drinking water. It is also added to
meat products as a preservative. The potential risks of this practice are balanced against the …

Antimicrobial film was extruded using LDPE resins and potassium sorbate powder; its
tensile properties, transparency and antimicrobial activity were measured to examine the …

Benzoic acid is found naturally in a wide variety of plants. It was isolated in the sixteenth
century, but not commercially produced until the end of the nineteenth century. Researchers …

Twelve years have passed since its last edition-making Antimicrobials in Foods, Third
Edition the must-have resource for those interested in the latest information on food …

Focusing on the great variety of research being done in the field of postharvest pathology,
this volume presents a collection of topics concerning the diseases of harvested fruits and …

We discuss seven hypotheses to explain the adaptive significance of secondary metabolites
in ripe fleshy fruits and their implications for seed dispersal. These hypotheses are the …

The evaluation of the potentiality of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) strains isolated from different
origins to inhibit mould growth and to identify and characterize the antifungal metabolites …

Six rhizobacteria isolated from common bean and able to protect bean plants from the
common bacterial blight (CBB) causal agent, were in vitro evaluated for their potential …

With global fish production falling behind demand, the aquaculture of selected species has
become an effective method to augment fish availability. Unlike natural species, however …