This Special Issue of Foods, entitled “Biotechnology approaches in Food Preservation and Food Safety”, was devoted to topics focused on biotechnology approaches in the pre- and post-harvesting of produce, food processing and preservation technologies, and methods for monitoring food safety and quality.
The first FDA approval for a food biotechnology application was the Flavr Savr transgenic tomato in 1994. This vegetable has a delayed ripening after its harvest. After this date food biotechnology has been used to develop many products. Currently, more than 80% of US cotton and corn were from food biotechnology.
A range of technologies is applied at different levels and scale of operation in food processing across the developing country. Low input and conventional technology includes drying, evaporation, canning, dehydration, freezing, vacuum packing, osmotic dehydration, sugar crystallization, etc.
Biotechnology is changing our way of living by affecting the foods, drinks, medicine, and cloths. The application of biotechnological methods in the food and agricultural industry has great repercussion on the society.