Food Safety and Quality Monitoring

Dear Colleagues,

The biosensors industry is now worth billions of US dollars, with applications mostly in the biomedical field. There is still a great demand for portable, user-friendly, rapid and highly robust methods to monitor food quality and safety throughout the food production chain. The use of biosensors as emerging technologies could revolutionize the study and detection of foodborne pathogens, toxins, allergens, contaminants, and biomarkers for food quality and safety. The development of biosensors will further serve the food industry, agricultural sector, regulatory community, and public health. A biosensor is defined as a device that recognizes biological or chemical species via interaction with a biological agent or biomaterial and then transduces this interaction into a measurable signal. This Special Issue aims to promote recent and significant advances in the field of biosensing and its applications to food safety, food quality, and food processing, as well as agriculture systems.

We would like to invite you to participate in this Special Issue by submitting either an original research paper or a review article on biosensors for food safety and quality monitoring.

Dr. Carmen L. Gomes
Dr. Eric S. McLamore
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Biosensors is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2200 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.