Vibrational Spectroscopy, Chemometrics and Molecular Profiles: Applications to the Quality Assessment of Foodstuffs
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Engineering and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 20577
Special Issue Editors
Interests: vibrational spectroscopy; near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy; analytical chemistry; physical chemistry; chemometrics; natural product analysis
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Interests: molecular spectroscopy; analytical chemistry; natural product analysis; physical chemistry; chemometrics
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Interests: vibrational spectroscopy; separation science; enrichment techniques; mass spectrometry
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Quality of food is one of the most important and urgent problems of the modern world. With accelerating increases in world trade, emerging markets, and thriving internationality of food supplies, food safety has become increasingly difficult to maintain. The above factors have induced a long-term and global rise in demand for adequate methods of food quality control and monitoring.
Vibrational spectroscopy is one of the most used techniques for the assessment of the quality of foodstuffs. As an analytical tool, it is useful for sample characterization and qualitative and quantitative analysis. Rapid, on-site analysis performed by handheld spectrometers particularly suits the nature of the discussed field of application, given the complexity of food supply chains and their vulnerability to quality compromise. Progressing miniaturization and simplification of spectroscopic instrumentation, combined with cloud-based analysis of spectral data, brings the technique even closer to the ordinary consumer who gains the ability to perform food analysis on a daily basis. Rapid progress in sensor technology has been accompanied by continuing advancement of data-analytical procedures, which are ubiquitous tools enabling effective spectroscopic analysis. Novel approaches in chemometrics, machine learning, and deep learning (which has recently grown in importance and applicability) make the analysis more reliable and more widely applicable.
This Special Issue collects contributions reporting on the current progress achieved in vibrational spectroscopic methods of food analysis. This includes, but is not limited to, FT-IR, NIR, Raman spectroscopy, hyperspectral imaging techniques, the design of new experimental techniques, data-analytical approaches, and the development of new applications.
Dr. Justyna Grabska
Dr. Krzysztof B. Bec
Prof. Dr. Christian Huck
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- vibrational spectroscopy
- analytical chemistry
- chemometrics
- food quality
- data analysis
- hand-held/portable spectrometers
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