Monitoring, Detection and Control of Food Contaminants

Dear Colleagues,

Food contamination constitutes one of the most important potential food safety hazards and risks. Traditionally, the contamination of fresh and processed foods includes biological, physical, chemical, and allergenic hazards which can derive from microorganisms, natural toxins, chemical compounds, packaging materials, and poisons. A single hazard can also introduce more than one type of contaminant.

This Special Issue focuses on the conventional and emerging technologies for the monitoring, detection, and control of food contaminants. Additives, microbiological issues, and pesticide and animal drug residues are all major concerns.

Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:

• Methods for controlling contamination in food processing (GMPs, HAACP, packaging, temperature, sanitation, freezing, UV radiation, and others);
• Technologies for decontamination (heat, radiation, chemicals);
• Conventional techniques (spectroscopic/colorimetric techniques, chromatography, immunoassays, etc.);
• Nanomaterials and biosensors for detecting food contaminants;
• Emerging technologies (ultrasound, plasma, nanotechnology, natural antimicrobials, etc.).

Dr. Luis M. Carrillo-López
Dr. Rosa Isela Ventura Aguilar
Guest Editors

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• food contaminants
• decontamination
• additives
• residues
• food safety