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Modern Analytical Strategies for Food Authenticity and Quality Control at the Point-of-Care

A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Analytical Chemistry".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 2207

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Competency Center for Chemometrics, Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, Mannheim, Germany
Interests: food authenticity; ion mobility; mass spectrometry; spectroscopy; machine learning; deep learning; python
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IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Spain
Interests: hyperspectral; imaging; spectroscopy; machine learning; matlab
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Dear Colleagues,

Analytical techniques for food authentication and quality control have made significant progress not only in remote high-end laboratories, but also on-site at the so-called point-of-care (POC). This term comprises all techniques that can be moved, carried or are somewhat other mobile to be placed at the location where the analysis has to be carried out. This may cover spectroscopy-based (e.g., NIR, Mid-IR, NMR, Raman) or spectrometry-based techniques (e.g., MS, IMS), as well as sensor technology. Modern chemometric techniques, often also called “machine learning”, as well as deep learning-based approaches are powerful allies for such POC systems and generally allow cloud-based data analysis. This Special Issue wants to focus on such techniques of any type of the field of analytical techniques in combination with modern chemometric strategies.

Dr. Philipp Weller
Dr. José M. Amigo
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Keywords

  • spectroscopy
  • spectrometry
  • chemometrics
  • point-of-care
  • food authenticity
  • quality control
  • sensors

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Differentiation of Monofloral Honey Using Volatile Organic Compounds by HS-GCxIMS
by Hannah Schanzmann, Alexander L. R. M. Augustini, Daniel Sanders, Moritz Dahlheimer, Modestus Wigger, Philipp-Marius Zech and Stefanie Sielemann
Molecules 2022, 27(21), 7554; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27217554 - 04 Nov 2022
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Honey is a natural product and can be described by its botanical origin, determined by the plants from which the bees collect nectar. It significantly influences the taste of honey and is often used as a quality criterion. Unfortunately, this opens up the [...] Read more.
Honey is a natural product and can be described by its botanical origin, determined by the plants from which the bees collect nectar. It significantly influences the taste of honey and is often used as a quality criterion. Unfortunately, this opens up the possibility of food fraud. Currently, various methods are used to check the authenticity of monofloral honey. The laborious, manual melissopalynology is considered an essential tool in the verification process. In this work, the volatile organic compounds obtained from the headspace of honey are used to prove their authenticity. The headspace of 58 honey samples was analyzed using a commercial easy-to-use gas chromatography-coupled ion mobility spectrometer with a headspace sampler (HS-GCxIMS). The honey samples were successfully differentiated by their six different botanical origins using specific markers with principal component analysis in combination with linear discriminant analysis. In addition, 15 honey-typical compounds were identified using measurements of reference compounds. Taking a previously published strategy, retention times of marker compounds were correlated with GC-coupled mass spectrometry (GC-MS) measurements to assist in the identification process. Full article
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