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Aiming to produce environmentally friendly alternatives to plastic food wrap and containers, a Rutgers scientist has developed a biodegradable,...

A Rutgers scientist has designed a biodegradable, plant-based covering that can be sprayed on foods to protect them from pathogenic and spoilage microbes as well as transportation harm, intending to develop an economically friendly substitute for plastic food wrap and containers.

A biodegradable, plant-based coating that can be sprayed onto foods, guarding against pathogenic and spoilage microorganisms and transportation damage has been created as an alternative to plastic food wrap.

Starch-based fibers enhance protection and reduce spoilage

   

Reply Philip Demokritou -- a leader in environmental and health and safety research at Harvard University -- will join Rutgers University as the Henry Rutgers Chair in Nanoscience and Environmental Bioengineering at the Rutgers School of Public Health and Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute. Demokritou will be a resident faculty member at the Environmental an Occupational Health Sciences Institute and serve as the director of the Division of Exposure Science and Epidemiolog...