Advanced Food Analysis Tools: Biosensors and Nanotechnology provides the latest information on innovative biosensors and tools that are used to perform on-site detection tests. Food safety is a global health goal, with the food industry providing testing and guidance to keep the population safe. Food contamination is mainly caused by harmful substances and biological organisms, including bacteria, viruses and parasites, which can all have a major impact on human health. The lack of specific, low-cost, rapid, sensitive and easy detection of harmful compounds has resulted in the development of the electrochemical technologies that are presented in this book. Includes the most recent and innovative biosensor and nanotechnology for the food industry Applies the most current trends in food analysis research Presents opportunities for unique electrochemical tools to enhance performance

This book reviews methods of analysis and detection in the area of food science and technology. Each chapter deals with determination/quantification analyses of quality parameters in food, covering topics such as lipids, color, texture, and rheological properties in different food products. The book focuses on the most common methods of analysis, p

Food safety and quality are key objectives for food scientists and industries all over the world. To achieve this goal, several analytical techniques (based on both destructive detection and nondestructive detection) have been proposed to fit the government regulations. The book aims to cover all the analytical aspects of the food quality and safety assessment. For this purpose, the volume describes the most relevant techniques employed for the determination of the major food components (e.g. protein, polysaccharides, lipds, vitamins, etc.), with peculiar attention to the recent development in the field. Furthermore, the evaluation of the risk associated with food consumption is performed by exploring the recent advances in the detection of the key food contaminants (e.g. biogenic amines, pesticides, toxins, etc.). Chapters tackle such subject as: GMO Analysis Methods in Food Current Analytical Techniques for the Analysis of Food Lipids Analytical Methods for the Analysis of Sweeteners in Food Analytical Methods for Pesticides Detection in Foodstuffs Food and Viral Contamination Application of Biosensors to Food Analysis

Gas chromatography is widely used in applications involving food analysis. Typical applications pertain to the quantitative and/or qualitative analysis of food composition, natural products, food additives, and flavour and aroma components. Providing an up-to-date look at the significant advances in the technology, this book includes details on novel sample preparation processes; conventional, high-speed multidimensional gas chromatography systems, including preparative instrumentation; gas chromatography–olfactometry principles; and, finally, chemometrics principles and applications in food analysis. Aimed at providing the food researcher or analyst with detailed analytical information related to advanced gas chromatography technologies, this book is suitable for professionals and postgraduate students learning about the technique in the food industry and research.

Volume 3 of the landmark treatise Food Analysis: Principles and Techniques provides a distinctive, comprehensive treatment of biological techniques utilized in the analysis of food constituents, ranging from the use of biologically active molecules -- the enzymes -- to the employment of cell cultures, microorganisms, and whole animals. Volume 3: Biological Techniques eliminates the problem of searching through widely scattered sources to achieve thorough understanding of the principles and techniques used in this area. In self-contained chapters -- written by renowned investigators to assure authoritative, up-to-date coverage -- this unique resource systematically presents detailed background information for each technique to provide a solid conceptual framework ... details specific applications and procedures, including numerous illustrative examples ... discusses advantages and limitations for each technique to help you select appropriate techniques for your needs ... and compares and contrasts the biological assay techniques with instrumental methods to enhance fuller understanding of the field. Unmatched in scope, Biological Techniques -- like its companion volumes in this important 8-volume set -- reflects the broad-ranging recent developments in the field and is a requisite source for all food analysts in industry, government, and academia, including food scientists, nutritionists, biochemists, microbiologists, toxicologists, biologists, and environmental chemists. Additionally, graduate students in food science and nutrition will find each volume of this work indispensable in their studies. Book jacket.

This two-volume handbook supplies food chemists with essential information on the physical and chemical properties of nutrients, descriptions of analytical techniques, and an assessment of their procedural reliability. The new edition includes two new chapters that spotlight the characterization of water activity and the analysis of inorganic nutrients, and provides authoritative rundowns of analytical techniques for the sensory evaluation of food, amino acids and fatty acids, neutral lipids and phospholipids, and more. The leading reference work on the analysis of food, this edition covers new topics and techniques and reflects the very latest data and methodological advances in all chapters.