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Nanotechnology in the food packaging industry and its effect on human heath

Dr.Haifa Ali Awahd/Karbala university- Agriculture college  Nanomaterials are increasingly being used in the food packaging industry due to the range of advanced functional properties they can bring to packaging materials. Nanotechnology-enabled food packaging can generally be divided into three main categories (Silvestre et al. 2011; Duncan et al. 2011). improved packaging – whereby nanomaterials are mixed into the polymer matrix to improve ...

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Enzymes the secret of preserving life

Enzymes are organic molecular biochemical catalysts (formed naturally inside the cells of living organisms), which increase the speed of chemical reactions without being consumed in this process and without becoming part of their products, as they work to convert the basic reaction material to other molecules known as products.      Most metabolic processes, whether they are anabolism or catabolism, need ...

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