Advances in food diagnostics

✍ Scribed by Leo M L Nollet; Fidel Toldrá; Y H Hui

• Publisher: Blackwell Pub
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 373
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Assuring safety and quality along the food chain --
Methodologies for improved quality control assessment of food products --
Application of microwaves for on-line quality assessment --
Ultrasounds for quality assurance --
NMR for food quality and traceability --
Electronic nose for quality and safety control --
Rapid microbiological methods in food diagnostics --
Molecular technologies for detecting and characterizing pathogens --
DNA-based detection of GM ingredients --
Protein-based detection of GM ingredients --
Immunodiagnostic technology and its applications --
Rapid liquid chromatographic techniques for detection of key (bio)chemical markers --
Sampling procedures with special focus on automatization --
Data processing --
Data handling --
The market for diagnostic devices in the food industry.