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

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 needs. As with most new and evolving technologies, potential benefits are emphasized, while little is known on safety of the application of nanotechnologies in the agro-food sector. In recent years scientists have discussed about health concerns of nanomaterials. This review explores the effects of nanotechnology in food industry, human body and its potential health concerns in order to reveal another aspect of this new technology

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nanotechnology ، health ، food ، concern