Nanotechnology: A Valuable Strategy to Improve Bacteriocin Formulations

What is it about?

Bacteriocins experience a wide range of problems when they are applied in food industry as a biopreservative and in biomedical field as an antibacterial agent. Exploiting the benefits of nanotechnological tools could offer away of alleviating these obstacles.

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Why is it important?

This article depicts the drawbacks of the direct applications of bacteriocins in food and biomedical industry, and how to overcome by using different nanomaterials. Through these unique nanotechnological approaches, the shelf life and the spectrum of bacteriocins can be enhanced to a great extent without any harmful effects. Furthermore, this review provides researchers with the majority of nanoformulations have been used to improve the properties of bacteriocins.