Question

Why is it important to perform safety assessment of nanoparticles used in food or food-related products? (Nutrition)

Answer 1

The assessment conducted by food and safety department is crutial for a product to get released in market and the assessment these days goes down till the nano level.

With the advent of increase in science and technology different food engineered food presenvents have come into existence to such an extent of being nano and micro particles. And poses challenges for the inbuilt safet assesment techniques.

Interactive smart materials like nano emulsions, anti caking agents, nano capsules of aromas are such examples which brought granule level food preserving, coloring upgrdation to the existence.

The materials like nano silver, nano titanium, nano zinc, nano silica became highly influential in additing life, odour to the food materials, so in general any of these materials present in excess to the prescibed can be highly fatal to the end consumers, so the safet assessment standards needed a refined upgradation to the already existed processes for the betterment of the consumers.