Intelligent Sensing Technologies for Monitoring Food Quality and Safety
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Intelligent Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 December 2024 | Viewed by 1209
Special Issue Editor
Interests: environmental control; food quality control; microelectronics-based sensors
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are now close to completing the first quarter of the 21st century, and humanity is facing several crucial challenges that are yet to be solved. One of these challenges is food. According to the UN databases, the world is experiencing a growing population that is expected to reach 9.8 billion inhabitants in 2050. Food inequality is also increasing worldwide, with nearly one in three people lacking regular access to adequate food in 2020. Thus, the struggle to meet the UN’s second Sustainable Development Goal for 2030 (zero hunger); improving nutrition, food quality and security; and contributing to the sustainability of the agrifood sector are fundamental tasks for humankind and to which we as scientists can contribute.
In this sense, food science and technology have come a long way in recent decades. New and better methods applicable to food technology, production and process management and food quality control have emerged and are now consolidated and implemented.
This Special Issue invites authors to contribute to the search for solutions by submitting new research results in the field of Intelligent Sensing Technologies for Monitoring Food Quality and Safety, particularly those referring (but not limited) to the following topics:
Sensing of food quality
- Freshness
- Ripeness/ageing
- Freezing/thawing
- Color/smell/texture
- Sensory aspects
- Nutritional aspects
Sensing of food safety
- Detection of compounds
- Phytosanitary control
- Waste and spoilage
- Infections
- Illnesses
- Pests
New technologies/applications
- Chemical analyses
- Microstructure analyses
- Light microscopy
- Confocal laser scanner microscopy
- Electron microcopy
- X-ray microscopy
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
- Low-field nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)
- Impedance Spectroscopy
- Near Infrared Spectroscopy
- Artificial vision techniques
- Fluorescence
- Gas chromatography/mass spectroscopy (GC/MS)
- Electronic noses and tongues
- Sensors arrays
- And any others…
Aerial and remote agrifood sensing
- Drones
- Satellites
- Aerial imaging
- Remote agrifood and food management sensing
Prof. Dr. Nicolás Laguarda-Miró
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sensors
- technologies
- food
- quality
- safety
