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The packaging industry is an important element in marketing and preserving the shelf life of the products. Sometimes it affects the sales with the design on the packaging, and sometimes it prevents the deterioration of especially food products.
Packaging production from petroleum-based synthetic plastics such as polystyrene, polypropylene, polyethylene, polymethylmethacrylate and polyvinyl chloride has led to the search for alternative ways in recent years, especially since they do not disappear in nature.
In this regard, the production of biodegradable packaging materials has gained importance. Usually, edible biomass sources such as vegetable oil, corn starch, pea starch or microbiota are used in the production of biodegradable packaging materials.
In a different study, it was tried to provide aflotoxin inhibitor properties to biocomposite packaging films produced from orange peel waste.
Scope of work; The biocomposite film is dipped with Cellulose Acetate Phthalate (CAP), an active drug material used in enteric coatings, to inhibit aflatoxins. In the determination of aflatoxin formation, raisins were used as target food, and the initial aflatoxin amount (mg / g of grapes) was determined by performing total aflatoxin analysis (B1, B2, G1, G2) in the sterilized raisin samples.
Two sets of experiments were conducted to determine the effects of the films on aflatoxins present in raisins and on the formation of new aflatoxins, and Aspergillus parasiticus was used to determine the formation of new toxins.
According to the results, it was determined that CAP coating increased the inhibition effect of the biocomposite packaging film on aflatoxin and its production, and it was determined that the CAP coated biocomposite film was more effective than the commercial packaging film in terms of preventing the formation of new aflatoxins.
