Sustainable Food Packaging [F-23-43]

This presentation will describe the status of sustainable food packaging and review some of the current efforts to develop biodegradable packaging materials to prevent pollution and achieve sustainability within the food system. Sustainable and environmentally friendly materials that can replace non-degradable plastics is an important goal to achieve sustainability within the food system; to both extend the shelf life and reduce the environmental food-print of packed food.

Silvana Andreescu is the Matijević Endowed Chair in Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science at Clarkson University. She received a PhD in Chemistry, specializing in biosensors from the University of Perpignan, France, and University of Bucharest, Romania in 2002. Her work on sensing has been featured broadly by the American Chemical Society (ACS), the American Food Summit and the Institute for Food Technology (IFT), the largest international organization in the world focusing on food science and technology. She has published over 180 peer-reviewed publications, co-edited 3 books, was awarded three patents and has delivered some 200 presentations throughout the world.

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