Advanced Methods and Technologies: Ensuring and Improving Food Safety and Quality
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 August 2023) | Viewed by 2114
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
One of the most significant areas of public interest today is the safety of food and the preservation of its quality.
Climate change, rising temperatures, reduced agricultural productivity, increased use of pesticides, and the globalization of long food chains are challenges to the production of safe, high-quality food.
On the other hand, modern lifestyles, urbanization, and global population growth have created new tasks for modern food technology. Increasing public demand for minimally processed foods, improved functional and nutritional values, awareness of food allergens, and environmentally friendly foods are just some of the motivations for developing new aspects and advanced methods to ensure safe and high-quality foods.
Many novel environmentally friendly technologies, such as non-thermal processes, have proven successful in obtaining safe and high-quality products compared to conventional methods. These processes not only ensure safe food, but also better quality as important nutritional components are preserved.
The aim of this Special Issue is to collect scientific papers and reviews that address the importance of safe and high-quality food for the protection of human health, future challenges in ensuring high-quality food and possible solutions, as well as new methods for safer food production.
Dr. Nika Pavlović
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- food safety
- food quality
- food protection
- food contamination
- green chemistry
- food industry
- functional food
- health risk
- environmental health
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