Detection Methodologies for Pathogen and Toxins: A Review

Md Alahi; Subhas Mukhopadhyay

doi:10.3390/s17081885

journal article Open Access Aug 16, 2017

Detection Methodologies for Pathogen and Toxins: A Review

Md Alahi

Subhas Mukhopadhyay

Sensors Vol. 17 No. 8 pp. 1885 · MDPI AG

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Abstract

Pathogen and toxin-contaminated foods and beverages are a major source of illnesses, even death, and have a significant economic impact worldwide. Human health is always under a potential threat, including from biological warfare, due to these dangerous pathogens. The agricultural and food production chain consists of many steps such as harvesting, handling, processing, packaging, storage, distribution, preparation, and consumption. Each step is susceptible to threats of environmental contamination or failure to safeguard the processes. The production process can be controlled in the food and agricultural sector, where smart sensors can play a major role, ensuring greater food quality and safety by low cost, fast, reliable, and profitable methods of detection. Techniques for the detection of pathogens and toxins may vary in cost, size, and specificity, speed of response, sensitivity, and precision. Smart sensors can detect, analyse and quantify at molecular levels contents of different biological origin and ensure quality of foods against spiking with pesticides, fertilizers, dioxin, modified organisms, anti-nutrients, allergens, drugs and so on. This paper reviews different methodologies to detect pathogens and toxins in foods and beverages.

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Published: Aug 16, 2017
Vol/Issue: 17(8)
Pages: 1885
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Md Alahi

Department of Engineering, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia

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Subhas Mukhopadhyay

Department of Engineering, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia

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Md Alahi, Subhas Mukhopadhyay (2017). Detection Methodologies for Pathogen and Toxins: A Review. Sensors, 17(8), 1885. https://doi.org/10.3390/s17081885

Detection Methodologies for Pathogen and Toxins: A Review

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