Advanced Analytical Strategies in Food Safety and Quality Monitoring
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Analytical Methods".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2022) | Viewed by 38211
Special Issue Editors
Interests: rapid and nondestructive detection methods and equipment for food and agricultural products
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Food safety and quality have received increasing attention because of the increased demand for healthy food. Nowadays, food safety and quality assurance are still being challenged. Some well-developed analytical methods have been widely used to determine food safety and quality, but they are generally high in cost or time-consuming. Hence, it is desirable to develop analytical strategies to monitor food safety and quality rapidly or even in real-time. To achieve this, many efforts have been made in optical and electrical/electrochemical methods. Most of these methods are based on sensors and indicators that are generally small in size with rapid response to targets. As foods are generally complex matrices, the selectivity, sensitivity, and stability of the sensors and indicators should be sufficiently effective. To date, with the development of advanced materials, such as composite materials and nanomaterials, these sensors and indicators have been endowed with superior performance. We believe that increasing novel and advanced analytical strategies will be put into practical application and therefore help to protect our health.
Prof. Dr. Xiaobo Zou
Dr. Jiyong Shi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- NIR/IR
- hyperspectral imaging
- electronic nose
- machine vision
- electrochemistry
- raman spectroscopy
- fluorescence spectroscopy
- intelligent packaging
- nanomaterials
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