Advances in Application of Spectral Analysis in Dairy Products
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Analytical Methods".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2021) | Viewed by 42683
Special Issue Editors
Interests: dairy farming; milk quality; near-infrared and mid-infrared spectroscopy; chemometrics; health and welfare monitoring; cattle management; precision livestock farming; sensors; biostatistics; time-series analysis
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Interests: Dairy farming; milk analysis; phenotyping; mid-infrared spectrometry; chemometrics; precision livestock farming; health, welfare and environmental impact monitoring; standardization of spectrometers
Interests: precision livestock farming; robust computational tools; advanced data-processing and machine learning; interdisciplinary solutions; dairy and animal science
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Worldwide, milk and derived dairy products are important components in the human diet as they are a balanced source of nutritious proteins, fat, carbohydrates, minerals, and vitamins. Because the produced milk originates from millions of dairy farms, being collected, processed and distributed again by several thousand dairy processors and retailers, rapid and cost-effective quality control is essential at all levels of the dairy production chain. Already for decades, high-throughput spectroscopic techniques are the basis for dairy quality control in the laboratory or at the processing plant, although continuously evolving, improving and enlightening new aspects. Apart from the perspective of food technology and the economic value of the dairy product, milk composition and quality also reveal important information on the genetic potential, performance, health and welfare of the animals that produce the milk. As such, the same analytical techniques are being used for precision phenotyping, health and welfare monitoring, and optimization of inputs and outputs. Upon the technology becoming more accurate, robust, and flexible, new applications of spectral analysis of dairy products are important topics of today’s research and innovation.
This Special Issue deals with novel advances in the broad field of spectroscopic dairy analysis, from farm to fork, covering all aspects of dairy quality and animal monitoring and improvement. It involves spectroscopic studies of nutritional, sensory, sanitary, and technological properties of milk and derived products, and includes methods for authentication of products and adulteration detection. The genetic evaluation and direct or indirect monitoring of health, welfare, performance and efficiency of animals based on the spectroscopic milk analysis can be further addressed in this Special Issue. Next to new advances made in the laboratory, novel strategies for spectroscopic dairy analysis at the farm or the food processing plant, as well as inventive chemometrics, multi-variate and statistical data analysis approaches, are strongly welcomed. In this Special Issue, we aim to publish original research results and review papers.
Prof. Dr. Ir. Ben Aernouts
Dr. Ir. Clément Grelet
Dr. Ir. Ines Adriaens
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Milk and dairy products
- Spectroscopic analysis
- Near and mid-infrared
- Dairy nutritional, sanitary, sensory and technological quality properties
- Authentication and fraud and adulteration detection
- Milk metabolomics
- Animal health and welfare monitoring
- Precision livestock farming and phenotyping
- Big-data, chemometrics and biostatistical tools
- On-line analysis
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