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Advanced Biosensors for Food and Agriculture Safety

A special issue of Biosensors (ISSN 2079-6374). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosensor Materials".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 March 2026 | Viewed by 447

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Zhaoyang Ding

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College of Food Science and Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 201306, China
Interests: MOFs; biosensors; polymer dots for food safety; biomedical applications; nanomaterials
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Prof. Dr. Huilin Liu

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School of Food and Health, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijng 10000, China
Interests: food analysis; food biosensing; food safety rapid sensing; food safety control
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Ensuring the safety and quality of food and agricultural products is crucial for managing global challenges such as population growth, climate change, and complex supply chains. Contamination from pathogens, pesticides, toxins, and environmental pollutants poses significant risks to both public health and economic stability. In this regard, advanced biosensors are transformative, offering rapid, accurate, and portable solutions for real-time hazard detection in food and agriculture. Recent advancements in nanotechnology have further enhanced the sensitivity, specificity, and scalability of these sensors. This Special Issue, "Advanced Biosensors for Food and Agriculture Safety," explores the latest developments in biosensor design, application, and commercialization. It aims to cover the application of biosensors in detecting foodborne pathogens, pesticide residues, food additives, and environmental contaminants in agricultural products. It also seeks to highlight advancements in optical, electrochemical, and wearable biosensors that enable onsite detection, improving food safety, reducing reliance on traditional lab-based methods, and ensuring transparency in the food supply chain. Researchers are invited to submit original studies, reviews, and perspectives that address current challenges and future opportunities in using biosensing technologies to create safer and more sustainable food systems.

Dr. Zhaoyang Ding
Prof. Dr. Huilin Liu
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Keywords

  • biosensors
  • food safety
  • agricultural safety
  • pathogen detection
  • pesticide residues
  • food additives
  • nanotechnology
  • real-time analysis
  • food supply chain

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Non-Enzymatic Selective Detection of Histamine in Fishery Product Samples on Boron-Doped Diamond Electrodes
by Hiroshi Aoki, Risa Miyazaki and Yasuaki Einaga
Biosensors 2025, 15(8), 489; https://doi.org/10.3390/bios15080489 - 29 Jul 2025
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Histamine sensing that uses enzymatic reactions is the most common form of testing due to its selectivity for histamine. However, enzymes are difficult to store for long periods of time, and the inactivation of enzymes decreases the reliability of the results. In this [...] Read more.
Histamine sensing that uses enzymatic reactions is the most common form of testing due to its selectivity for histamine. However, enzymes are difficult to store for long periods of time, and the inactivation of enzymes decreases the reliability of the results. In this study, we developed a novel, quick, and easily operated histamine sensing technique that takes advantage of the histamine redox reaction and does not require enzyme-based processes. Because the redox potential of histamine is relatively high, we used a boron-doped diamond (BDD) electrode that has a wide potential window. At pH 8.4, which is between the acidity constant of histamine and the isoelectric point of histidine, it was found that an oxygen-terminated BDD surface successfully detected histamine, both selectively and exclusively. Measurements of the sensor’s responses to extracts from fish meat samples that contained histamine at various concentrations revealed that the sensor responds linearly to the histamine concentration, thus allowing it to be used as a calibration curve. The sensor was used to measure histamine in another fish meat sample treated as an unknown sample, and the response was fitted to the calibration curve to perform an inverse estimation. When estimated in this way, the histamine concentration matched the certified value within the range of error. A more detailed examination showed that the sensor response was little affected by the histidine concentration in the sample. The detection limit was 20.9 ppm, and the linear response range was 0–150 ppm. This confirms that this sensing method can be used to measure standard histamine concentrations. Full article
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