Food Packaging from Plant-Based By-products

Dr. Preetam Sarkar is an Assistant Professor of Food Sciences at the Department of Food Process Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha, India. He completed his Ph.D. in Food Sciences from Purdue University, USA. The research at Dr. Sarkar’s lab at NIT Rourkela focuses on the development of delivery vehicles such as emulsions, films and coatings, for the protection of bioactive compounds such as antimicrobial agents for food safety applications. He has published 30 articles in SCI journals, 10 book chapters, and co-edited 3 books. Dr. Kunal Pal is a Professor in the Department of Biotechnology and Medical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India. His major research interests revolve around biomedical signal processing, biomedical equipment design, soft materials, and controlled drug delivery. He has published more than 100 publications in SCI-cited journals of high repute. Dr. Srinivas Janaswamy, Associate Professor in the Department of Dairy and Food Science at South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, USA, has more than 25 years of research experience that constitutes interdisciplinary at the frontier between Carbohydrate Chemistry, Materials Science, and Life Sciences. His research program on ‘Functional Carbohydrates’ is about designing and developing novel carriers of bioactive compounds, biodegradable packaging materials, water purification, and plant nutrition. He has published more than 95 international peer-reviewed journal articles, so far, edited one book on “Natural Polymers for Drug Delivery” and two special journal issues on “Green Physical Processing Technologies for the Improvement of Food Quality” and “Advances and Challenges of Carrier Architecture for Bioactive Delivery Systems”. Dr. Janaswamy has international research collaborations with groups in China, Kenya, and India, and is the recipient of the 2019 Global Engagement Research Award, and the 2022 David Fee Memorial Lecture Award. He serves as an editorial board member of Food Chemistry Advances, Functional Food Science, and Physical Chemistry & Chemical Physics. Dr Miguel Cerqueira is a Staff Researcher at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal. His research focuses on developing sustainable, plant-based materials; polymer gels, specifically, oleogels; and innovative technologies such as encapsulation of functional compounds. He is the principal investigator for several research projects and has supervised over 20 Masters and PhD students. Dr Cerqueira has published more than 120 articles and is the editor of 6 books. In 2014, he won the Young Scientist Award, and in 2018, he joined the list of "Highly Cited Researchers" presented by Clarivate Analytics.

• 1. Introduction to plant-based agricultural by-products2. Molecules of interest from plant-based agricultural by-products3. Methods of extraction and characterization of plant-based by-products4. Mango by-products based food packaging systems5. Grape by-products based food packaging systems6. Citrus by-products based food packaging systems7. Apple by-products based food packaging systems8. Tomato by-products based food packaging systems9. Potato by-products based food packaging systems10. Carrots and eggplant by-products based food packaging systems11. Wheat by-products based food packaging systems12. Rice by-products based food packaging systems13. Corn by-products based food packaging systems14. Legumes and pulses by-products based food packaging systems15. Tamarind by-products based food packaging systems16. Nanocomposites from plant-based by-products17. Plant by-products based active and intelligent packaging18. Regulatory aspects in plant by-products based food packaging19. Consumer acceptance of plant by-products based food packaging20. Scale-up and industrialization of packaging materials from plant-based by-products21. Life cycle assessment, environmental impact analysis, and techno-economic evaluations of packaging systems from plant by-products