Review of Application of Nanotechnology in Food Industry and Related Health Concerns

Review of Application of Nanotechnology in Food Industry and Related Health Concerns

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Nanotechnology is the twenty-first-century discipline concerned with studying and engineering manufactured materials with one dimension less than 100 nm that possess unique properties because of their size. Nanotechnologies cover many aspects, such as disease treatment, food security, new materials for pathogen detection, packaging materials and delivery systems. However, the current applications of nanotechnology in the food sector are few, as the science is relatively newly emergent, but they have been on a steady rise in recent years, and are predicted to grow rapidly in the coming years. This is because the new technologies have a great potential to address many of the food industry‘s current…