Novel Approaches for the Analytical Evaluation of Food Quality and Authenticity
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Analytical Methods".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2024) | Viewed by 2029
Special Issue Editors
Interests: spectroscopy; process chemistry; food chemistry; environmental chemistry; metabolomics
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Interests: qNMR; non-targeted NMR; validation; interlaboratory comparisons; food authenticity; food origin and traceability
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Food quality control has become an urgent issue directly correlated to the traceability of food products throughout the supply chain, from seed to the supermarket counter. One of the main challenges is to evaluate the characteristics of foods by detecting even small variations in the main features of the product under investigation in order to ascertain whether the food product meets the required food safety regulations and customer requirements.
To date, official tests of authenticity are based on targeted analyses consisting in the isolation/identification of specific markers, usually indicative of a peculiar property of the sample. In most cases, the identification of markers is followed by their quantification and comparison with the limits established according to validated and internationally agreed, recognized and standardized procedures. However, while the targeted approach is well employed for the detection and quantification of known compounds, it may fail to reveal the presence of additives or contaminants not known to the analyst. The non-targeted approach can help overcome this drawback by providing a global view of the characteristics of a food product. Regardless of the approach applied, there is an urgent need to implement new analytical methods, which should consist of sensitive, high throughput and easily validatable analyses, capable of providing rapid and reliable results. This Special Issue will collect the most recent advances in this research field.
Dr. Biagia Musio
Prof. Dr. Vito Gallo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- traceability
- quality control
- metabolic composition
- fingerprint
- chemometrics
- biomarker
- validation
- targeted analysis
- blockchain
- artificial intelligence
