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Consumers may soon be able to go for longer between milk-buying trips. That's because Brazilian company Agrindus hopes to start marketing plastic milk bottles that use embedded silver nanoparticles to kill bacteria. Grade A pasteurized fresh whole milk packaged in those bottles can reportedly last for up to 15 days, as opposed to the usual seven.
The technology was developed by partner company Nanox, and involves first coating silica ceramic particles with silver nanoparticles. This reportedly has a synergistic effect, with the silica boosting the antimicrobial properties of the silver.
Those coated particles take the form of a powder that is subsequently mixed into liquid polyethylene. Using blow- or injection-molding, that plastic is then made into bottles which Agrindus plans to sell to dairy goods companies. The particles can also be used to make milk bags, which should extend shelf life from four to 10 days.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday August 06 2015, @11:14PM
I'm assuming, that you'd be dead long before you got enough silver in your body to markedly increase either. The only reason Wolverine didn't die is, because he was already a "Super Hero" with crazy regeneration. I assume at some point ingestion of silver or gold would result in "Heavy Metal Poisoning". The difference is that it would either take a lot more or you are much less likely to get enough of either than you are with something like lead.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"