Advances in Food Diagnostics

Advances in Food Diagnostics

by Leo M. L. Nollet - Fidel Toldrá
(2007)

Advances in Food Diagnostics provides the most updated, comprehensive professional reference source available, covering sophisticated diagnostic technology for the food industry.

This book addresses the most recent advances in food diagnostics through multiple approaches:

• reviewing novel technologies to evaluate fresh products
• describing and analyzing in depth several specific modern diagnostics
• providing an analysis of data processing
• discussing global marketing with an insight into future trends

Advances in Food Diagnostics covers several modern diagnostic techniques:

• application of ultra sounds to monitor the quality of food products without affecting their integrity – i.e., non-destructive or non-invasive practices
• use of biosensors and electronic noses for evaluating the safety and quality of agricultural and horticultural product
• principles and applications of immunodiagnostics – e.g., fundamentals, application in food safety
• current status of using molecular biology to detect and characterize foodborne pathogens
• DNA-based and protein-based technologies to detect and identify genetically-modified food or food components
• detection of biochemical markers with rapid chromatographic techniques

Advances in Food Diagnostics is the most up-to-date, comprehensive professional reference source available on the subject.

Contents

1. Assuring Safety and Quality along the Food Chain
2. Methodologies for improved quality control assessment of food products
3. Application of microwaves for on-line quality assessment
4. Ultrasounds for Quality Assurance
5. NMR for Food Quality and Traceability
6. Electronic Nose for Quality and Safety Control
7. Rapid Microbiological Methods in Food Diagnostics
8. Molecular Technology in the Detection and Characterization of Food-borne Pathogens
9. DNA-bases Detection of GM Ingredients
10. Protein-based Detection of GM Ingredients
11. Immunodiagnostic Technology and its Applications
12. Rapid Liquid Chromatographic Techniques for Detection of Key (Bio)Chemical Markers
13. Automatized Sampling Procedures
14. Data Processing
15. Data Handling
16. The Market for Diagnostic Devices in the Food Industry

Size 7.9 MB

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