Advances in Food Diagnostics

Food diagnostics is a relatively new and emerging area fuelled inlarge part by the ever-increasing demand for food safety.Advances in Food Diagnostics provides the most updated,comprehensive professional reference source available, coveringsophisticated diagnostic technology for the food industry. EditorsNollet, Toldrá, and Hui and their broad team of internationalcontributors address the most recent advances in food diagnosticsthrough multiple approaches: reviewing novel technologies toevaluate fresh products; describing and analyzing in depth severalspecific modern diagnostics; providing an analysis of dataprocessing; and discussing global marketing with an insight intofuture trends.While covering conventional (typically lab-based) methods ofanalysis, the book focuses on leading-edge technologies that arebeing or about to be introduced. The book looks at areas such asfood quality assurance, safety and traceability. Issues such asimproved quality control, monitoring pesticide and herbicideresidues in food, determining the nutritional content of food anddistinguishing between GM and "conventional" foodstuffs arecovered. Advances in Food Diagnostics offers the foodprofessional what its title promises - the latest advances infood diagnostics and analysis.

Contributors viiPreface xi1. Assuring Safety and Quality along the Food Chain 1Gerhard Schiefer2. Methodologies for Improved Quality Control Assessment of Food Products 11Manuel A. Coimbra Sílvia M. Rocha and António S. Barros3. Application of Microwaves for On-line Quality Assessment 49Ruth De los Reyes Marta Castro-Giráldez Pedro Fito and Elías De los Reyes4. Ultrasounds for Quality Assurance 81Bosen Zhao Otman A. Basir and Gauri S. Mittal5. NMR for Food Quality and Traceability 101Raffaele Sacchi and Livio Paolillo6. Electronic Nose for Quality and Safety Control 119Naresh Magan and Natasha Sahgal7. Rapid Microbiological Methods in Food Diagnostics 131Daniel Y. C. Fung8. Molecular Technologies for Detecting and Characterizing Pathogens 155Geraldine Duffy and Terese Catarame9. DNA-Based Detection of GM Ingredients 175Alexandra Ehlert Francisco Moreano Ulrich Busch and Karl-Heinz Engel10. Protein-Based Detection of GM Ingredients 199A. Rotthier M. Eeckhout N. Gryson K. Dewettinck and K. Messens11. Immunodiagnostic Technology and Its Applications 211Didier Levieux12. Rapid Liquid Chromatographic Techniques for Detection of Key (Bio)Chemical Markers 229M-Concepción Aristoy Milagro Reig and Fidel Toldrá13. Sampling Procedures with Special Focus on Automatization 253K. K. Kleeberg D. Dobberstein N. Hinrichsen A. Müller P. Weber and H. Steinhart14. Data Processing 295Riccardo Leardi15. Data Handling 323Philippe Girard Sofi ane Lariani and Sébastien Populaire16. The Market for Diagnostic Devices in the Food Industry 347Hans Hoogland and Huub LelieveldIndex 359