Contemporary Engineering Technologies in Food Processing, Antimicrobial Optimization and Pesticides Usage in Agricultural Practice
A special issue of AgriEngineering (ISSN 2624-7402).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2021) | Viewed by 3753
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Interests: animal science; nutrition; antimicrobials; antibiotic alternatives; veterinary; biotechnology; genetics; toxicology
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Interests: the estimation of the effects of agricultural substances on food and the environment; food quality and safety; chromatographic analyses
Interests: agricultural zoology; environmental protection; biodiversity conservation; risk assessment; bioindicators; water quality
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Increasing the world population and economical world crises that are rising each day makes fast and high-quality food production an extremely hard and difficult job. Contemporary engineering technologies in food processing, antimicrobial optimization and pesticide usage in agricultural practice nowadays are more than necessary, as well as their appropriate implementation. Internet of Things and clouding technologies as the concept of the intelligent object is realized using sensors, actuators and integrated microcontrollers. These smart objects collect data, process them and initiate appropriate actions from the development environment. The internet of things will thus bring inconceivable advantages and help in the modernization of agricultural production. The industrialization of the agricultural sector has increased the chemical burden on the natural ecosystems. During food production, antibiotics have been widely used in animal nutrition, while parallel to that pesticides has been used in agricultural lands, public health programs, and urban green areas to protect plants and humans from various diseases. Despite their benefits, both antibiotics and pesticides can be hazardous to humans, animals, and the environment. Pesticides are environmentally stable, toxic and prone to bioaccumulation. The environmental contamination or occupational use can expose the general population to pesticide residues, including their metabolites present in the air, water and food. Pesticide residues in food even in the limits under the MRLs may present the real health risk as in the case of simultaneous exposure to multi-residues, which occurs in real-life conditions and may have synergistic negative effects to humans and animals.
This special issue aims to address all aforementioned topics including society's needs for the implementation of a new, smart and technologically advanced agricultural concepts regarding food production and to create awareness in the population concerning their health.
Dr. Nikola Puvača
Dr. Vojislava Bursić
Dr. Dragan Soleša
Dr. Aleksandra Petrović
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- processing
- technologies
- internet of things
- pesticides
- antibiotics
- food and feed safety
- agribusiness and agronomy
- water and soil
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