How will nanotechnology be used for food production and processing?
Industry analysts and proponents predict that nanotechnology will be used to transform food from the atom up: Thanks to nanotechnology, tomorrows food will be designed by shaping molecules and atoms. Food will be wrapped in smart safety packaging that can detect spoilage or harmful contaminants. Future products will enhance and adjust their color, flavor, or nutrient content to accommodate each consumers taste or health needs. And in agriculture, nanotechnology promises to reduce pesticide use, improve plant and animal breeding, and create new nano-bioindustrial products or so states the US Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies recent report on the use of nanotechnology in food and agriculture (available at http://www.nanotechproject.org). The food and agriculture industries have been investing billions of dollars into nanotechnology research, with an unknown number of unlabeled nano food products already on the market. In the absence of mandatory product labelling anywhere in the world
