Food preservation and packaging
- Submission status
- Closed
- Submission deadline
Approximately 1.3 billion tonnes of food, nearly a third of all food produced for human consumption, is estimated to be lost or wasted globally every year. Development of innovative and sustainable food preservation and packaging technologies is critical to combating food waste and ensuring future food security. With adequate and appropriate preservation and packaging, it is possible to maintain food quality during transport and storage, prevent contamination, and extend the shelf-life of food products. Reducing the environmental impact of the materials and methods used in these endeavours is also however a relevant and important consideration.
This Collection welcomes submissions reporting new developments in all aspects of food preservation and packaging, including but not limited to thermal (sterilisation, pasteurisation) and non-thermal (high pressure, cold plasma, ultrasound, pulse electric field, irradiation) processing, emulsification, preservatives, biodegradable/renewable packaging materials, moisture absorbers and oxygen/ethylene scavengers.
Editors
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Nidhi Bansal
University of Queensland, Australia
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Federico Gómez Galindo
Lund University, Sweden
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Keshavan Niranjan
University of Reading, UK
Submitting a paper for consideration
To submit your manuscript for consideration at Scientific Reports as part of this Collection, please follow the steps detailed on this page. On the first page of our online submission system, under “I’m submitting:” select the option “any other article type”. Once logged in you can submit your manuscript to a Collection by selecting “Guest Edited Collection”, under the “Choose the appropriate manuscript type” message, and clicking “Continue”. Then when filling out the manuscript information, select the "Food preservation and packaging" Collection from the alphabetical list on the “Springer Nature Subject Category” tab. Authors should express their interest in the Collection in their cover letter.
Accepted papers are published on a rolling basis as soon as they are ready.
In addition to papers on food preservation and packaging, Scientific Reports welcomes all original research in biotechnology. To browse our latest articles in biotechnology click here.
