ABSTRACT
Food is the prime necessity of human beings. From primitive days, they developed skill to manufacture the derivatives of foods from the raw edible stuffs, creating huge amounts of waste, which has become a great challenge. One third of global food production is equal to the global waste, which is dumped every year, creating problems for human health and wrecking the environmental components. There is an urgent need to develop a strategic management protocol. For this problem, nanotechnology could play a prominent role in the conversion of food waste into the energy and other beneficial and ecofriendly products. Keeping this in view, an attempt has been taken to study the role and application of nanotechnology in food waste management. Present study highlights the applications of nanotechnology, micro- and nanoscale processing, and the recent instrumentation for achieving sustainable and cost-effective food safety and biosecurity.
