Antimicrobials for Sustainable Food Storage

Finding natural substances is worthwhile in food preservation. The principal motivation behind this edited volume, Antimicrobials for Sustainable Food Storage, is to collect and present widespread knowledge in the domain of sustainable food ingredients with antimicrobial properties. The book consists of two sections. The first section of this volume is about food ingredients as antimicrobials, and the second section discusses the recent advances in the applications of food ingredients.

Interplay of various environmental factors favors the growth of different microorganisms during the food preservation process. Growth of undesirable microorganisms negatively influences the taste, smell, color, and texture of food. Therefore, sustainable food preservation is a challenging issue. Though several chemicals have emerged, inevitable health effects are commonly encountered by food preserve chemicals.

Microbial products (nisin, enterocin, pentosin, sakacin, and pediocin) have immense importance in prolonging the shelf life of food substances by controlling food spoilage and pathogenic microbes. Yeasts and cyanobacteria are also potential candidates in the supply of food ingredients with significant antimicrobial properties. However, limited awareness of antimicrobials as food ingredients and the unavailability of a single source of the latest insights on such food ingredients in one place led to the motivation to produce this work.

Key Features:

• Provides insights on natural antimicrobials in food preservation
• Underlines the importance of sustainable food packaging
• Offers knowledge on emerging trends in antimicrobial-based food storage

Diverse applications are covered in different chapters. This book covers various antimicrobials as food preservatives, such as metabolites, natural products, essential oils, nanomaterials, L-arginine, polyphenols, phaeophyceae, and horchata. There are also chapters that focus on the applicability and prospective studies of essential oils, edible biofilms, biodegradable antimicrobials, and nanostructured lipid carriers in the food sector and the method for encapsulation of antimicrobials.

Naga Raju Maddela received his M.Sc. (1996-1998) and Ph.D. (2012) in Microbiology from Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapuramu, India. During his doctoral program in the area of Environmental Microbiology, he investigated the effects of industrial effluents/insecticides on soil microorganisms and their biological activities and he is working as Faculty in Microbiology since 1998, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students. He worked on Prometeo Investigator (fellowship received from SENESCYT) at Universidad Estatal Amazónica, Ecuador during 2013-15, received ＂Postdoctoral Fellowship＂ (2016-2018) from Sun Yat-sen University, China. He also received external funding from ＂China Postdoctoral Science Foundation＂ in 2017, internal funding from ＂Universidad Técnica de Manabí＂ in 2020. He participated in national / international conferences, and presented research data in China, Cuba, Ecuador, India and Singapore. Currently, he is working as a Full Professor at the Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Técnica de Manabí, Portoviejo, Ecuador. He has been actively publishing scientific articles, books (authored and edited) and chapters since 2007. As of now, he published 80 articles, 15 books and 50 book chapters.

Gusdanis Alberto Campos García received his Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry (2005) and Ph.D in Chemistry (2012) from Universidad del Zulia, Venezuela. He served as a Full-time Associate Professor of the Academic Unit of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Experimental Sciences, Universidad del Zulia, Venezuela (2014-2016). Also, he worked as Research and Development Coordinator at Simsa oil company in Venezuela (2013-2016). Since 2016, he is working as a Principal professor of Laboratory Instrumentation and Toxicology of the Clinical Laboratory course, Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS), Universidad Técnica de Manabí (UTM), Portoviejo, Ecuador. At UTM, he is also serving as a Vice-Dean of Research and Postgraduate of the faculty of Health Sciences from 2017 to present. He is a Member of the Clinical Laboratory Sciences research group at UTM and supervising students of master’s program in biomedicine. He is an alternate member of the Honorable University Council of UTM for the period 2023-2025.

Jaskiran Kaur is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the department of Biotechnology, DAV University, Sarmastpur, Jalandhar, Punjab- 144012, India. She has more than three years of teaching and research experience. She has received her MSc in Biotechnology from Punjab University, Chandigarh in 2010; and MPhil and PhD in Environmental Science and Technology from Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, India in 2012 and 2019, respectively. Her area of research interest is wastewater management and treatment, membrane bioreactor, membrane fouling mitigation, quorum quenching, biofuels and bioremediation. She has published more than 25 research papers in peer-reviewed national and international research journals, conference proceedings and chapters in books. She is serving as a Brand ambassador in The Bentham Science Publisher. In addition, she organized several workshops and faculty development programs till date. She has also participated in various training programs, faculty development programs, seminars and presented her work in more than 10 National, International conferences and seminars as well.