Biodegradable food packing] is create

The Brazilian scientists from State university Campinas (FEQ-UNICAMP) and Institutes food technologies created biodegradable food packing on the basis of citrene. Results of work are described in the Food Packaging and Shelf Life magazine. Technology production of a biofilm means use of the connection received from a component of a peel of a citrus — citrene, and also hitozana — the biopolymer extracted from chitin which contains in exoskeletons of Crustacea. Citrene earlier already applied in a film to packings food products as it possesses antioxidant and antimicrobic...