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ReviewPolymers2025

Next-Generation Food Packaging: Progress and Challenges of Biopolymer-Based Materials.

Raja Venkatesan, Maher M Alrashed, Alexandre A Vetcher, Seong-Cheol Kim

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Review in Polymers, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Valorization of Mushroom Residues for Functional Food Packaging.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Raja VenkatesanSchool of Chemical Engineering, Yeungnam University, 280 Daehak-Ro, Gyeongsan 38541, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-5547-7477
Maher M AlrashedChemical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Saud University, P.O. Box 800, Riyadh 11421, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-9997-3280
Alexandre A VetcherInstitute of Pharmacy and Biotechnology (IPhB), RUDN University n.a. P. Lumumba (RUDN), 6 Miklukho-Maklaya Str, Moscow 117198, Russia.ORCID 0000-0002-4828-8571
Seong-Cheol KimSchool of Chemical Engineering, Yeungnam University, 280 Daehak-Ro, Gyeongsan 38541, Republic of Korea.

Funding

King Saud University ORF-2025-774Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation Theme No. 124031100087-1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biopolymer-based packaging is emerging as a sustainable replacement for conventional plastic materials. Significant challenges like scalability, machinability, and mechanical properties are preventing biopolymers from industrially advancing despite their sustainable advantages. Also, the usage of materials in packaging is limited due to their toxicity, the degradation products, and their migration properties. Nanocomposite materials and active packaging methods with the antimicrobial agents showed novel advances with enhanced performance. However, these advances frequently increase the complexity and cost of production. For an assessment of their safe and efficient usage, knowledge gaps on the effects of biopolymer migration and degradation on the environment and human health should be addressed. These challenges, which involve enhanced material characteristics, reducing costs, and aligning regulations, demand interdisciplinary methods. This review explores the prospects for sustainable innovation in packaging by examining the challenges and potential solutions associated with the development of biopolymer-based materials.

Indexed as

biopolymerschallengesfood packagingmachinabilitymigration kineticstoxicity

Identifiers

PMID40942216
PMCPMC12431102

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