Novel Aspects of Chemsensor Analysis for Food Quality and Safety

Dear Colleagues,

Food safety has always been a focus. With the rapid development of social and economic development, people's living standards have gradually improved, and they have put forward higher requirements for food safety. To ensure the quality of food and protect people's health, we should actively develop efficient and fast analysis and testing techniques to ensure food safety. Traditional instrumental analysis methods have the shortcomings of expensive instrumentation, time-consuming and labor-intensive sample pre-treatment, and requiring specialized personnel to operate, which are not conducive to rapid on-site food safety testing. In recent years, with the intersection of different disciplines and various new technologies, more reliable and more accurate detection methods have been introduced. As a representative of the new technology, sensing analysis, due to its fast detection speed, high sensitivity, low cost, and easy miniaturization of equipment, provides new ideas and methods for food safety testing to adapt to the new situation of food safety problems. We are pleased to invite you to submit an article for publication in this Special Issue on the application of sensing analysis innovations in food safety testing, including novel sample pre-treatment techniques, novel recognition and signal amplification strategies, advanced functional materials, dual-mode sensors, microfluidics, microarray technology, visualization and portable analysis, and multi-residue analysis.

Dr. Yukun Yang
Prof. Dr. Huilin Liu
Dr. Ying Gu
Guest Editors

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