Nanotechnology creates safer food packaging

The British Research Association believes that they have demonstrated that safe and effective antibacterial nanoparticles can be used to produce food packaging. This discovery will bring about changes in food packaging. Professor Ding Yulan and Prof. Malcolm Povey, as well as PHD candidate Zhang Lingling, are very convinced of the effectiveness of zinc dioxide and manganese dioxide in effectively killing microorganisms. It will become a cheap and safe alternative to nanosilver nanotechnology. Silver has a strong antibacterial effect, but it is very expensive. At the same time, as a heavy metal, it is also not suitable for contact with humans. Nanotechnology involves the study and application of a very small range (one millionth of a millimeter) of material and aims to find materials with different properties compared to a wide range of components. One nanometer is equal to one millionth of a millimeter.