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Sensors for Agri-Food Safety

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Smart Agriculture".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 May 2023) | Viewed by 10342

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Mustafa Fatih Abasiyanik

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Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, The University of Chicago, Edward H. Levi Hall, 5801 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Interests: sensor technologies; food analysis; host-pathogen interaction; infectious disease; NGS
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue will collect state-of-the-art agricultural/food sensor (AFS) technologies, used in ensuring safety in the agriculture/food industry. We welcome the submission of experimental and theoretical results, review articles, and short communications under the topic, “Sensors for Agri-Food Safety”. We welcome submissions within a broad scope, including research concerning the ways in which AFSs monitor the quality, safety, and economic value of agriculture/food products. In addition, during the processes of agricultural/food production, sensors monitor production parameters (e.g., sunlight exposure, temperature, and soul moisture) to increase the production efficiency and yield, as well as minimizing environmental impact by measuring the levels of toxins (e.g., pesticides, herbicides, and chemical wastes) and the misuse of GMOs and natural resources (e.g., underground water, soil minerals) for more sustainable production. Another subtopic is food fraud, including food adulteration and mislabeling, which is an economic threat to both industry and consumers. Finally, human health is a primary concern. Given that two recent pandemics—2009 Swine Flu and COVID-19—originated from a farm and a food market, respectively, AFS can play an enormous role in eliminating potential sources of future pandemics. Studies on portable and smart AFSs, used by vulnerable people, such as refugees and people in extreme conditions, are warmly welcomed for submission. Any submissions related to these given topics are welcome.

All the sensor technologies under the scope (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/about) of this journal, which have a possible usage in the special topic are covered by this Special Issue.

Dr. Mustafa Fatih Abasiyanik
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • sustainable food production
  • food quality
  • precision agriculture
  • sensor-based decision making
  • agriculture/food sensors
  • environment and human safety

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A Monitoring Framework with Integrated Sensing Technologies for Enhanced Food Safety and Traceability
by Antonio Vincenzo Radogna, Maria Elena Latino, Marta Menegoli, Carmela Tania Prontera, Gabriele Morgante, Diamantea Mongelli, Lucia Giampetruzzi, Angelo Corallo, Andrea Bondavalli and Luca Francioso
Sensors 2022, 22(17), 6509; https://doi.org/10.3390/s22176509 - 29 Aug 2022
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A novel and low-cost framework for food traceability, composed by commercial and proprietary sensing devices, for the remote monitoring of air, water, soil parameters and herbicide contamination during the farming process, has been developed and verified in real crop environments. It offers an [...] Read more.
A novel and low-cost framework for food traceability, composed by commercial and proprietary sensing devices, for the remote monitoring of air, water, soil parameters and herbicide contamination during the farming process, has been developed and verified in real crop environments. It offers an integrated approach to food traceability with embedded systems supervision, approaching the problem to testify the quality of the food product. Moreover, it fills the gap of missing low-cost systems for monitoring cropping environments and pesticides contamination, satisfying the wide interest of regulatory agencies and final customers for a sustainable farming. The novelty of the proposed monitoring framework lies in the realization and the adoption of a fully automated prototype for in situ glyphosate detection. This device consists of a custom-made and automated fluidic system which, leveraging on the Molecularly Imprinted Polymer (MIP) sensing technology, permits to detect unwanted glyphosate contamination. The custom electronic mainboard, called ElectroSense, exhibits both the potentiostatic read-out of the sensor and the fluidic control to accomplish continuous unattended measurements. The complementary monitored parameters from commercial sensing devices are: temperature, relative humidity, atmospheric pressure, volumetric water content, electrical conductivity of the soil, pH of the irrigation water, total Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and equivalent CO2. The framework has been validated during the olive farming activity in an Italian company, proving its efficacy for food traceability. Finally, the system has been adopted in a different crop field where pesticides treatments are practiced. This has been done in order to prove its capability to perform first level detection of pesticide treatments. Good correlation results between chemical sensors signals and pesticides treatments are highlighted. Full article
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Applications of Electronic Nose, Electronic Eye and Electronic Tongue in Quality, Safety and Shelf Life of Meat and Meat Products: A Review
by Paulo E. S. Munekata, Sarah Finardi, Carolina Krebs de Souza, Caroline Meinert, Mirian Pateiro, Tuany Gabriela Hoffmann, Rubén Domínguez, Sávio Leandro Bertoli, Manoj Kumar and José M. Lorenzo
Sensors 2023, 23(2), 672; https://doi.org/10.3390/s23020672 - 6 Jan 2023
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The quality and shelf life of meat and meat products are key factors that are usually evaluated by complex and laborious protocols and intricate sensory methods. Devices with attractive characteristics (fast reading, portability, and relatively low operational costs) that facilitate the measurement of [...] Read more.
The quality and shelf life of meat and meat products are key factors that are usually evaluated by complex and laborious protocols and intricate sensory methods. Devices with attractive characteristics (fast reading, portability, and relatively low operational costs) that facilitate the measurement of meat and meat products characteristics are of great value. This review aims to provide an overview of the fundamentals of electronic nose (E-nose), eye (E-eye), and tongue (E-tongue), data preprocessing, chemometrics, the application in the evaluation of quality and shelf life of meat and meat products, and advantages and disadvantages related to these electronic systems. E-nose is the most versatile technology among all three electronic systems and comprises applications to distinguish the application of different preservation methods (chilling vs. frozen, for instance), processing conditions (especially temperature and time), detect adulteration (meat from different species), and the monitoring of shelf life. Emerging applications include the detection of pathogenic microorganisms using E-nose. E-tongue is another relevant technology to determine adulteration, processing conditions, and to monitor shelf life. Finally, E-eye has been providing accurate measuring of color evaluation and grade marbling levels in fresh meat. However, advances are necessary to obtain information that are more related to industrial conditions. Advances to include industrial scenarios (cut sorting in continuous processing, for instance) are of great value. Full article
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