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Food and beverages packaging provides protection, tampering resistance and special physical, chemical, or biological needs for the food and beverages. Further Food packaging aids food nutrition, rapid and reliable distribution of food among the value chain and reduces post harvest losses.

Food preservatives are substances that are added to food to keep it safe and fresh for longer duration of time. The food preservatives are used across beverages, dairy bakery, snacks, meat and sea food during processing and packing to prevent them any bacterial effects. The growth in demand of these food items is expected to be major driver for the food preservative market. Global nature of food sourcing and increasing complexities in the food supply chain have resulted in increasing demand for products and techniques required to prolong the shelf-life of the food product, thus increasing the demand for food preservatives.

Gourmet salts are untreated, naturally-harvested salts (generally sea salts) with reasonably lower sodium content and no additives. These salts are used to add profligacy, flavor and dressing to the food product. Gourmet salts have better solubility, exotic flavor, moisture and superior mineral content.

Minerals are nutrition rich food supplements that help in maintaining good health. Minerals such as calcium, chromium, Iron, zinc, folic acid and iodine protect bones, maintain hormone insulin and boost human energy levels. Minerals can only be taken from external sources and cannot be generated by our body. Minerals are classified in two broad categories: “macrominerals” such as calcium and magnesium (these minerals are generally needed in larger quantity for human body), and “trace minerals” such as iron, zinc selenium and folic acid (these minerals are needed in small quantity).

According to a new market report published by Persistence Market Research “Global Market Study on Botanical Supplements: Personal Care Segment To Witness Highest Growth by 2020,” the global Botanical Supplements market was valued at USD 54.6 billion in 2013 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 7.5% from 2014 to 2020, to reach an estimated value of USD 90.2 million in 2020.

Nutrition is an essential part of the human diet, which helps in proper functioning of all cellular and physiological activities of the body. It provides sufficient amount of protein, vitamins and minerals to maintain energy balance of the body. The clinical nutrition products market is categorized based on various types, such as enteral nutrition, infant nutrition and parenteral nutrition. Enteral nutrition is also known as tube feeding; when a patient is unable to take sufficient amount of nutrition, tube feeding plays an important role in delivering nutrition directly into the stomach of the patient.

Food retailers need to evolve packaging techniques to increase the shelf-life of the packed food material along with increasing food safety and quality. Keeping this in mind, food processing companies have started using certain new packaging techniques, such as nano-enabled packaging. Nano-enabled packaging acts as a barrier between the gases, such as oxygen, and packed food material. Owing to its advantages in extending shelf life of packaged goods products and ensuring microbiological safety is expected to increase the demand for nano packaging technology in the coming future.

Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) is a computerized process for entering medical practitioner’s instructions for the treatment of patients. With the help of CPOE system, a clinician can directly enter his medication orders into a computer system and transmit orders directly to the pharmacy. Use of CPOE systems reduces medication errors that results in improved healthcare services. CPOE systems help in reducing delay in order completion, allows order entry at the point of care, provides error checking for duplicate or wrong doses and reduces error related to handwriting. It also increases efficiency and effectiveness of medical work. CPOE system is also used along with e-prescribing systems; this helps physicians by getting timely alerts. It also improves healthcare quality and data collection of various patients and improves communication between various departments such as lab assistants, nurses, physicians and others.

Hospital acquired infections (HAIs) or nosocominal infections refer to the infections that are developed and affect patients during their hospitalization. HAIs control focuses on preventing, sterilization, cleaning, testing and treating infections occurring in the hospital’s environment.

Hospital beds are designed to provide relief to the patient during hospitalization in hospitals. A single bed frame divided in three sections, head, middle and foot. Some of the common features of hospital beds include adjustable height of entire bed, adjustable side rails and electronic buttons to operate bed or connected electronic devices. In addition special beds, such as wheels, standing beds, turning and legacy beds, also provide comfortable hospitalization in hospitals.