Tan Hwee Leen

The nonbiodegradable plastic used by the general society has polluted our planet in a myriad of ways (Jones, 2022). With the aim to combat increasing plastic pollution, Jones (2022) has shed light on a newly developed food coating called 'Sprayed On, Rinse-off Food Wrapper’; by highlighting its non-toxic, antimicrobial, and biodegradable features; hinting at the opportunity for this innovation to replace plastic food packaging. This Spray On food coating is made up of Pullulan and other antimicrobial agents recognized by established institutions such as US Food and Drug Administration and Nature Food, to be harmless for human ingestion (Jones, 2022). Despite having these ingredients, the heart of this innovation resides in a new biomanufacturing system curated to construct 3D scaffolds composed of narrow fibers, also known as ‘Focused Rotary Jet Spinning (FRJS)’. Jones (2022) says that based on the experiment conducted by the researchers, the FRJS system generated gossamer fibers a...

The nonbiodegradable plastic used by the general society has polluted our planet in a myriad of ways, as the human race continues to taint Mother Earth by littering plastic (Jones, 2022). With the aim to combat increasing plastic pollution, Jones (2022) has shed light on a newly developed food coating called 'Sprayed On, Rinse-off Food Wrapper'; by highlighting its non-toxic, antimicrobial, and biodegradable features; hinting at the opportunity for this innovation to replace plastic food packaging. This Spray On food coating is made up of Pullulan and other antimicrobial agents recognized by established institutions such as US Food and Drug Administration and Nature Food, to be harmless for human ingestion (Jones, 2022). Despite having these ingredients, the heart of this innovation resides in a new biomanufacturing system curated to construct 3D scaffolds composed of narrow fibers, also known as ‘Focused Rotary Jet Spinning (FRJS)’. Based on the experiment conducted by the res...