Food Authentication, Tracing and Characterization: Novel Trends and Applications
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Analytical Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 50143
Special Issue Editors
Interests: data analysis; chemometrics; food analysis; data-fusion; spectroscopy; classification; variable selection; analytical chemistry
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Interests: chromatographic analysis; application of chemometrics to data analysis and optimization; quantitative structure–property relationship methodology; food analysis; food traceability
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Dear Collesgues,
In recent years, a general awareness regarding the quality and the chemical-physical characteristics of the food used for human nutrition has increased in consumers. A keen interest has been developed regarding the harvesting areas and the cultivation methods of agro-foods, and concerning the procedures of breeding, processing and conserving muscle-foods. Often, the physicochemical peculiarities distinctive of the quality of an aliment are strictly linked to the know-how of a producer and to the pedoclimatic characteristics of specific geographical areas. Consequently, the possibility of developing analytical methods that allow one to guarantee the authenticity and the provenance of a product have become of great interest.
The present Special Issue is placed in this context, and it aims at providing a collection of modern chemical strategies developed with the intent of characterizing, authenticating or tracing food products. Consequently, submissions of research works focused on the use of chemical methods, possibly synergistically combined with chemometric approaches, to assess the quality and to inspect the geographical origin, the authenticity and the characteristics of high value-added foods, is highly encouraged. As long as they have the same context, reviews providing an overview of the latest trends in this area of interest are also very welcome.
Dr. Alessandra Biancolillo
Prof. Dr. Angelo Antonio D'Archivio
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Food characterization
- Food quality check
- Food traceability
- Frauds detection
- Trends in food analysis
- Novel chemical tools in food analysis
- Authentication
- Multivariate data analysis
- Classification
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