Advanced Intelligent Detection and Biosensing Technologies for Food Safety: Pathogen Detection and Quality Monitoring
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Analytical Methods".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 November 2026 | Viewed by 26
Special Issue Editors
Interests: electrochemical sensors; biomimetic recognition interface; pathogen detection; food safety
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Interests: biosensors; food safety; nanomaterials; hydrogels
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Food safety is the foundation of safeguarding human health and improving the quality of human life. However, ensuring food safety remains a paramount global challenge, demanding continuous innovation in analytical methodologies. Rapid, sensitive, and accurate detection methods are crucial to preventing food safety incidents and ensuring food supply security. At present, the relentless emergence of foodborne pathogens and the complexity of modern food supply chains necessitate detection technologies that are not only highly sensitive and specific, but also rapid, intelligent, and field-deployable. With the rapid advancement of materials science, bioengineering, and intelligent technology, advanced intelligent detection and biosensing technologies have gradually become the core driving force for upgrading food safety detection systems, replacing traditional cumbersome, time-consuming detection methods with their advantages of high efficiency, miniaturization, and high sensitivity. This Special Issue focuses on the latest research progress, innovative technologies, and practical applications of intelligent detection and biosensing in food safety, covering pathogen detection, food quality monitoring, sensing material development, intelligent device integration, and other related fields. We warmly invite submissions of original research and review articles on topics including, but not limited to, the following:
- Novel biosensing platforms based on synthetic recognition elements, such as molecularly imprinted polymers, aptamers, and nanozymes, for highly specific detection of foodborne pathogens and chemical contaminants;
- Electrochemical, optical, and mass-sensitive transducers for rapid and sensitive food quality monitoring;
- Intelligent and integrated detection systems, including microfluidics, lab-on-a-chip, and portable point-of-care devices, with multiplexed and field-deployable capabilities;
- Data-driven strategies leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence for signal interpretation, risk prediction, and smart sensor development.
Dr. Xiaojun Bian
Dr. Juan Yan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- food safety
- biosensing technologies
- intelligent detection
- foodborne pathogens
- food quality monitoring
- molecularly imprinted polymers
- sensing materials
- on-site detection
- point-of-care testing
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