Food safety requires more sophisticated and intelligent technology in the food supply chain management. The emergence and development of nanotechnology brings a good opportunity to improve the complex technical issues that food supply chain safety needed and may bring revolutionary changes to the food supply chain in the future. This paper reviews the current and potential application of nanotechnology to every aspect of food safety in supply chains, include the quality detection, packaging, storage and distribution, tracking and tracing. This review suggests that even with communication as to how nanotechnology may advantage food supply chain safety the next area of research must be to investigate if awareness of the technical advances and benefits alone will be sufficient to accelerate adoption of these technologies by businesses to improve product visibility and food safety, quality and security.
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Improving the food safety in supply chain: the value of nanotechnology on a growing problem
J. Lu Related information
1 College of Economics and Management, China Agricultural University, Qinghuadonglu 17, Beijing 100083, China P.R.
, M. Bowles Related information2 Australian Maritime College, University of Tasmania, Newnham Drive, Launceston, TAS 7250, Australia
Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods: 6
(2)- Pages: 123 - 133
Published Online: March 10, 2014
Abstract
Keywords: food safety, food supply chain, nanosensor, nanotechnology, supply chain safety
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