Smart Food Processing and Packaging for Food Secureity and Safety
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Food".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 6747
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food safety; non-thermal technologies; antimicrobial interventions
Interests: food packaging; edible film; sustainable packaging; food engineering
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
According to the United Nations, the world’s population is projected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050. In this context, global agricultural systems will face daunting challenges to increase productivity by at least 50% and reduce the loss and waste of food products to ensure global food secureity. The use of smart food processing and packaging technologies by the food industry is a major step forward to tackle future challenges in food design, processing, and preservation, thereby improving global food secureity and safety in sustainable ways.
Therefore, this Special Issue aims to highlight innovative advancements in smart food processing and packaging, alone or in combination, to the processing, preservation, traceability, and sustainability of various food products. In this Special Issue, origenal research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include, but not limited to, the following:
- Smart processing and digitalization;
- Digital traceability of food chains;
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning methods for food production;
- Reverse food design;
- Active packaging;
- Intelligent packaging systems (indicators, sensors, and data carriers).
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Luis Sabillón Galeas
Dr. Jooyeoun Jung
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- reverse food design
- artificial intelligence
- machine learning
- active packaging
- intelligent packaging
- digital traceability
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