Food packaging plays an important role in guaranteeing food safety and maintaining food quality. As such antimicrobial food packaging has gained tremendous attention in recent years. Nano zinc oxide is a common inorganic antibacterial material, and has obvious antimicrobial effect on bacteria like Escherichia coil and Staphylococcus aureus as well as fungi. In this paper, we provide a comparison of the currently available types of antimicrobial food packaging and a systematic overview of the antimicrobial m...