Egg yolk antibodies and nanotechnology applied to animal health and production

BELLINGERI R; PICCO N; ALUSTIZA F; GROSSO MC; VIVAS AB

Approaches in Poultry, Dairy & Veterinary Sciences

crimson publisher

Lugar: New York; Año: 2018

2576-9162

Nanotechnology is a rapidly developing area of science and technology, which deals with the application, production andprocessing of materials with sizes less than 100 nm (a nanometer being one billionth of a meter). In addition, it is an interdisciplinary science comprising of various disciplines such as physics, chemistry, electronics, material science, health science, biology, and veterinaryscience, and it has impact on many industries.The ability to manufacture and manipulate material atnanoscale has offered opportunities to interface biological systemswith outer world in new ways and with unprecedented precision.These emerging technologies have indicated great potentialin functional foods and nutraceuticals for delivering bioactivecompounds in functional foods to improve human and animalhealth. Nanoscience and engineering can offer significantimprovements in food safety, packaging and ultimately, novel foodingredients, because nanotechnology may create different and newproperties. Applications of nanotechnology in the food industry have been developing more slowly than other areas because of theircomplex structures and sensitivity. Some applications in the foodindustry are improving the uptake, absorption, and bioavailabilityof nutrients and supplements in the body, producing new or improved tastes, and textures of foods, improving food-packagingmaterials, developing nanosensors that can give information about the freshness or spoilage of products during transportation, storageof food products.In this section, general particularities and applicationsof nanotechnology will be discussed with a special focus in nanocomposites for oral administration of IgY.