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  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,410 Views
12 Pages

Food Safety Event Detection Based on Multi-Feature Fusion

  • Kejing Xiao,
  • Chenmeng Wang,
  • Qingchuan Zhang and
  • Zhaopeng Qian

1 October 2019

Food safety event detection is a technique used to discover food safety events by monitoring online news. In general, a set of keywords are extracted as features to represent news, and then the news is clustered to generate events. The most popular m...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,712 Views
16 Pages

Recent Advances in Fluorescent Nanoprobes for Food Safety Detection

  • Huanxiang Yuan,
  • Yutong Li,
  • Jiaqi Lv,
  • Yunhe An,
  • Di Guan,
  • Jia Liu,
  • Chenxiao Tu,
  • Xiaoyu Wang and
  • Huijuan Zhou

24 July 2023

Fluorescent nanoprobes show similar fluorescence properties to traditional organic dyes, but the addition of nanotechnology accurately controls the size, shape, chemical composition, and surface chemistry of the nanoprobes with unique characteristics...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,364 Views
18 Pages

Recent Advances in Polysaccharide-Based Electrospun Nanofibers for Food Safety Detection

  • Jie Shi,
  • Junjie Tang,
  • Mengfei Zhang,
  • Yingqi Zou,
  • Jie Pang and
  • Chunhua Wu

1 April 2025

The continuous advancement of food safety analytical technologies is ensuring food safety and regulatory compliance. Electrospinning, a versatile fabrication platform, has emerged as a transformative methodology in materials science due to its unique...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,180 Views
27 Pages

5 June 2025

Automated food safety inspection systems rely heavily on the visual detection of contamination, spoilage, and foreign objects in food products. Current approaches typically require extensive labeled training data for each specific hazard type, limiti...

  • Review
  • Open Access
168 Citations
13,388 Views
32 Pages

Two-Dimensional Material-Based Electrochemical Sensors/Biosensors for Food Safety and Biomolecular Detection

  • Tao Li,
  • Dawei Shang,
  • Shouwu Gao,
  • Bo Wang,
  • Hao Kong,
  • Guozheng Yang,
  • Weidong Shu,
  • Peilong Xu and
  • Gang Wei

Two-dimensional materials (2DMs) exhibited great potential for applications in materials science, energy storage, environmental science, biomedicine, sensors/biosensors, and others due to their unique physical, chemical, and biological properties. In...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,574 Views
37 Pages

5 June 2025

Background: Food safety remains a global concern due to biological and chemical contaminants, including adulterants, pathogens, antibiotic residues, and pesticides. Traditional detection methods are accurate but limited by time requirements, complex...

  • Review
  • Open Access
112 Citations
13,652 Views
25 Pages

Review of Electrochemical Biosensors for Food Safety Detection

  • Ke Wang,
  • Xiaogang Lin,
  • Maoxiao Zhang,
  • Yu Li,
  • Chunfeng Luo and
  • Jayne Wu

2 November 2022

Food safety issues are directly related to people’s quality of life, so there is a need to develop efficient and reliable food contaminants’ detection devices to ensure the safety and quality of food. Electrochemical biosensors have the s...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,732 Views
10 Pages

Detection of Peanut Traces in Food by an Official Food Safety Laboratory

  • Clara Tramuta,
  • Lucia Decastelli,
  • Elisa Barcucci,
  • Francesco Ingravalle,
  • Sandra Fragassi,
  • Samantha Lupi and
  • Daniela Manila Bianchi

23 February 2022

Food safety laboratories rely on validated methods that detect hidden allergens in food to ensure the safety and health of allergic consumers. Here we present test results for the validation and accreditation of a real-time PCR assay for the detectio...

  • Review
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,462 Views
30 Pages

Stimulus-Responsive DNA Hydrogel Biosensors for Food Safety Detection

  • Huiyuan Wang,
  • Xinyu Wang,
  • Keqiang Lai and
  • Juan Yan

24 February 2023

Food safety has always been a major global challenge to human health and the effective detection of harmful substances in food can reduce the risk to human health. However, the food industry has been plagued by a lack of effective and sensitive safet...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,396 Views
21 Pages

30 July 2023

The excessive use of pesticides and drugs, coupled with environmental pollution, has resulted in the persistence of contaminants on food. These pollutants tend to accumulate in humans through the food chain, posing a significant threat to human healt...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,679 Views
22 Pages

Application of Biosensors for the Detection of Mycotoxins for the Improvement of Food Safety

  • Rafał Szelenberger,
  • Natalia Cichoń,
  • Wojciech Zajaczkowski and
  • Michal Bijak

27 May 2024

Mycotoxins, secondary metabolites synthesized by various filamentous fungi genera such as Aspergillus, Penicillium, Fusarium, Claviceps, and Alternaria, are potent toxic compounds. Their production is contingent upon specific environmental conditions...

  • Review
  • Open Access
68 Citations
8,022 Views
29 Pages

30 June 2023

Sustainable and safe food is an important issue worldwide, and it depends on cost-effective analysis tools with good sensitivity and reality. However, traditional standard chemical methods of food safety detection, such as high-performance liquid chr...

  • Review
  • Open Access
47 Citations
7,560 Views
15 Pages

New Advances in Lateral Flow Immunoassay (LFI) Technology for Food Safety Detection

  • Guangxu Xing,
  • Xuefeng Sun,
  • Ning Li,
  • Xuewu Li,
  • Tiantian Wu and
  • Fangyu Wang

5 October 2022

With the continuous development of China’s economy and society, people and the government have higher and higher requirements for food safety. Testing for food dopants and toxins can prevent the occurrence of various adverse health phenomena in...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,669 Views
6 Pages

12 October 2023

Fast nondestructive detection technology in food quality and safety evaluation is a powerful support tool that fosters informatization and intelligence in the food industry, characterized by its rapid processing, convenient operation, and seamless on...

  • Review
  • Open Access
528 Views
24 Pages

Research Progress on Molecularly Imprinted Polymer-Aptasensors for Food Safety Detection

  • Jiuyi Wang,
  • Xiaogang Lin,
  • Jinyu Wu,
  • Xiao Lv,
  • Binji Dai,
  • Ke Wang and
  • Jayne Wu

11 November 2025

The biological accumulation of microcontaminants and associated antibiotic resistance in food poses significant threats to both human and environmental health. Therefore, it is particularly crucial to design and develop methods of efficient identific...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,644 Views
34 Pages

Recent Progress in Nanomaterial-Based Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Food Safety Detection

  • Hagar S. Bahlol,
  • Jiawen Li,
  • Jiamin Deng,
  • Mohamed F. Foda and
  • Heyou Han

31 October 2024

Food safety has recently become a widespread concern among consumers. Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is a rapidly developing novel spectroscopic analysis technique with high sensitivity, an ability to provide molecular fingerprint spectra,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,003 Views
32 Pages

Advances in Nanozyme Catalysis for Food Safety Detection: A Comprehensive Review on Progress and Challenges

  • Renqing Yang,
  • Zeyan Liu,
  • Haili Chen,
  • Xinai Zhang,
  • Qing Sun,
  • Hany S. El-Mesery,
  • Wenjie Lu,
  • Xiaoli Dai and
  • Rongjin Xu

23 July 2025

The prosperity of enzyme-mimicking catalysis has promoted the development of nanozymes with diversified activities, mainly including catalase-like, oxidase-like, peroxidase-like, and superoxide dismutase-like characteristics. Thus far, the reported n...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,588 Views
22 Pages

Recent Advances in Personal Glucose Meter-Based Biosensors for Food Safety Hazard Detection

  • Su Wang,
  • Huixian Huang,
  • Xin Wang,
  • Ziqi Zhou,
  • Yunbo Luo,
  • Kunlun Huang and
  • Nan Cheng

29 October 2023

Food safety has emerged as a significant concern for global public health and sustainable development. The development of analytical tools capable of rapidly, conveniently, and sensitively detecting food safety hazards is imperative. Over the past fe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,479 Views
15 Pages

8 March 2022

Pesticide residue is a prominent factor that leads to food safety problems. For this reason, many countries sample and detect pesticide residues in food every year, which generates a large amount of pesticide residue data. However, the way to deeply...

  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
7,637 Views
18 Pages

9 February 2023

The detection of pathogens in food substances is of crucial concern for public health and for the safety of the natural environment. Nanomaterials, with their high sensitivity and selectivity have an edge over conventional organic dyes in fluorescent...

  • Review
  • Open Access
54 Citations
12,111 Views
47 Pages

A Review on Bio- and Chemosensors for the Detection of Biogenic Amines in Food Safety Applications: The Status in 2022

  • Stella Givanoudi,
  • Marc Heyndrickx,
  • Tom Depuydt,
  • Mehran Khorshid,
  • Johan Robbens and
  • Patrick Wagner

5 January 2023

This article provides an overview on the broad topic of biogenic amines (BAs) that are a persistent concern in the context of food quality and safety. They emerge mainly from the decomposition of amino acids in protein-rich food due to enzymes excret...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,571 Views
15 Pages

Identification of Genetic Markers for the Detection of Bacillus thuringiensis Strains of Interest for Food Safety

  • Arnaud Fichant,
  • Arnaud Felten,
  • Armel Gallet,
  • Olivier Firmesse and
  • Mathilde Bonis

5 December 2022

Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), belonging to the Bacillus cereus (Bc) group, is commonly used as a biopesticide worldwide due to its ability to produce insecticidal crystals during sporulation. The use of Bt, especially subspecies aizawai and kurstaki,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
12,160 Views
37 Pages

Machine Learning-Assisted Raman Spectroscopy and SERS for Bacterial Pathogen Detection: Clinical, Food Safety, and Environmental Applications

  • Md Hasan-Ur Rahman,
  • Rabbi Sikder,
  • Manoj Tripathi,
  • Mahzuzah Zahan,
  • Tao Ye,
  • Etienne Gnimpieba Z.,
  • Bharat K. Jasthi,
  • Alan B. Dalton and
  • Venkataramana Gadhamshetty

Detecting pathogenic bacteria and their phenotypes including microbial resistance is crucial for preventing infection, ensuring food safety, and promoting environmental protection. Raman spectroscopy offers rapid, seamless, and label-free identificat...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,679 Views
38 Pages

Current Approaches to Aflatoxin B1 Control in Food and Feed Safety: Detection, Inhibition, and Mitigation

  • Katarzyna Kępka-Borkowska,
  • Katarzyna Chałaśkiewicz,
  • Magdalena Ogłuszka,
  • Mateusz Borkowski,
  • Adam Lepczyński,
  • Chandra Shekhar Pareek,
  • Rafał Radosław Starzyński,
  • Elżbieta Lichwiarska,
  • Sharmin Sultana and
  • Mariusz Pierzchała
  • + 4 authors

Aflatoxins, toxic secondary metabolites produced primarily by Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus, pose a significant global health concern due to their frequent presence in crops, food, and feed—especially under climate change condi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
46 Citations
5,870 Views
19 Pages

24 December 2022

Nowadays, micro-sized sensors have become a hot topic in electroanalysis. Because of their excellent analytical features, microelectrodes are well-accepted tools for clinical, pharmaceutical, food safety, and environmental applications. In this brief...

  • Review
  • Open Access
713 Views
24 Pages

Innovative Detection and Mitigation of Ergot Alkaloids in Cereals: Advancing Food Safety

  • Maria Balatsou,
  • Aikaterini Koutsaviti,
  • Yiannis Sarigiannis and
  • Christos C. Petrou

3 December 2025

Background/Objectives: Ergot alkaloids are mycotoxins produced mainly by fungi of the genus Claviceps, infecting a wide variety of plants, especially cereals. These toxins usually manifest as black, hardened sclerotia (ergots), though they may also b...

  • Review
  • Open Access
49 Citations
7,941 Views
26 Pages

Electroanalytical Overview: Electrochemical Sensing Platforms for Food and Drink Safety

  • Alejandro Garcia-Miranda Ferrari,
  • Robert D. Crapnell and
  • Craig E. Banks

23 August 2021

Robust, reliable, and affordable analytical techniques are essential for screening and monitoring food and water safety from contaminants, pathogens, and allergens that might be harmful upon consumption. Recent advances in decentralised, miniaturised...

  • Review
  • Open Access
78 Citations
9,977 Views
24 Pages

16 January 2021

The easy and rapid spread of bacterial contamination and the risk it poses to human health makes evident the need for analytical methods alternative to conventional time-consuming laboratory-based techniques for bacterial detection. To tackle this de...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,152 Views
26 Pages

1 November 2025

Optical sensing technologies are revolutionizing global food safety surveillance through exceptional sensitivity, rapid response, and high portability. This review systematically evaluates five major platforms, revealing unprecedented detection capab...

  • Review
  • Open Access
57 Citations
11,754 Views
37 Pages

Metal-Organic Frameworks-Based Sensors for Food Safety

  • Aloys Hitabatuma,
  • Peilong Wang,
  • Xiaoou Su and
  • Mengmeng Ma

28 January 2022

Food contains a variety of poisonous and harmful substances that have an impact on human health. Therefore, food safety is a worldwide public concern. Food detection approaches must ensure the safety of food at every step of the food supply chain by...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,663 Views
23 Pages

19 February 2023

For survival and quality of human life, the search for better ways to ensure food safety is constant. However, food contaminants still threaten human health throughout the food chain. In particular, food systems are often polluted with multiple conta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,689 Views
16 Pages

Anomaly Score-Based Risk Early Warning System for Rapidly Controlling Food Safety Risk

  • Enguang Zuo,
  • Xusheng Du,
  • Alimjan Aysa,
  • Xiaoyi Lv,
  • Mahpirat Muhammat,
  • Yuxia Zhao and
  • Kurban Ubul

13 July 2022

Food safety is a high-priority issue for all countries. Early warning analysis and risk control are essential for food safety management practices. This paper innovatively proposes an anomaly score-based risk early warning system (ASRWS) via an unsup...

  • Review
  • Open Access
892 Views
28 Pages

Advances in Optical Sensing Technologies for On-Site Detection of Harmful Residues in Food: Principles and Recent Applications

  • Qinghua Liu,
  • Yuanyuan Liu,
  • Huihui Yang,
  • Qian Su,
  • Linglei Li,
  • Xiangqi Meng,
  • Minmin Li,
  • Xiaoxue Jia,
  • Peihua Ma and
  • Long Li
  • + 2 authors

27 November 2025

Food safety has recently attracted increasing attention, underscoring the need for timely and accurate on-site testing technologies. Optical detection, among various methods, offers notable advantages, including ease of use and rapid results, making...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,037 Views
22 Pages

5 September 2025

The complexity of global food supply chains challenges public health, requiring advanced detection technologies beyond traditional lab methods. Fluorescent sensing, known for its sensitivity and quick response, is promising for food safety but hinder...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,362 Views
28 Pages

Three-Dimensional Electrochemical Sensors for Food Safety Applications

  • Chi Zhang,
  • Qingteng Lai,
  • Wei Chen,
  • Yanke Zhang,
  • Long Mo and
  • Zhengchun Liu

Considering the increasing concern for food safety, electrochemical methods for detecting specific ingredients in the food are currently the most efficient method due to their low cost, fast response signal, high sensitivity, and ease of use. The det...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,472 Views
18 Pages

13 November 2023

Food safety and quality are paramount concerns for ensuring the preservation of human life and well-being. As the field of food processing continues to advance, there is a growing interest in the development of fast, instant, cost-effective, and conv...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
654 Views
22 Pages

3 December 2025

Heavy metal contamination in foodstuff poses a serious threat to food safety and human health; therefore, the development of toxic heavy metal detection methods is crucial. However, lots of these methods, based on traditional nanomaterials, have unav...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,508 Views
10 Pages

Ratiometric G-Quadruplex Assay for Robust Lead Detection in Food Samples

  • Yumei Liu,
  • Hao Yang,
  • Rui Wan,
  • Mohammad Rizwan Khan,
  • Nan Wang,
  • Rosa Busquets,
  • Ruijie Deng,
  • Qiang He and
  • Zhifeng Zhao

16 August 2021

Lead (Pb2+) pollution is a serious food safety issue, rapid detection of Pb2+ residual in food is vital to guarantee food quality and safety. Here we proposed ratiometric aptamer probes, allowing robust Pb2+ supervision in food samples. Pb2+ specific...

  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,898 Views
18 Pages

The Developments on Lateral Flow Immunochromatographic Assay for Food Safety in Recent 10 Years: A Review

  • Peng Wang,
  • Jinyan Li,
  • Lingling Guo,
  • Jiaxun Li,
  • Feng He,
  • Haitao Zhang and
  • Hai Chi

Food safety inspections are an essential aspect of food safety monitoring. Rapid, accurate, and low-cost food analysis can considerably increase the efficiency of food safety inspections. The lateral flow immunochromatographic assay (LFIA) technique...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,656 Views
38 Pages

Aptamer-Based Biosensors for Rapid Detection and Early Warning of Food Contaminants: From Selection to Field Applications

  • Cong Wang,
  • Mengyu Ye,
  • Ximeng Zhang,
  • Xin Chai,
  • Huijuan Yu,
  • Boshi Liu,
  • Chengyu Zhang and
  • Yuefei Wang

7 November 2025

Aptamer-based biosensors have emerged as an important and promising technology for applications in food safety, environmental monitoring, and pharmaceutical analysis. Obtained via Systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment (SELEX) scre...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,781 Views
28 Pages

Efficiency of Bacteriophage-Based Detection Methods for Non-Typhoidal Salmonella in Foods: A Systematic Review

  • Preeda Phothaworn,
  • Chatruthai Meethai,
  • Wanchat Sirisarn and
  • Janet Yakubu Nale

27 November 2024

Food contamination with non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) presents a significant public health risk, underscoring the critical need for rigorous food safety measures throughout the production, distribution, preparation, and consumption stages. Conventio...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,782 Views
18 Pages

Advancements in Optical Biosensor Technology for Food Safety and Quality Assurance

  • Pabina Rani Boro,
  • Partha Protim Borthakur and
  • Elora Baruah

9 September 2025

Optical biosensors have emerged as a transformative technology for food safety monitoring. These devices combine biorecognition molecules with advanced optical transducers, enabling the detection of a wide array of food contaminants, including pathog...

  • Review
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,100 Views
38 Pages

Recent Progress on Fluorescent Probes in Heavy Metal Determinations for Food Safety: A Review

  • Liqing Lai,
  • Fang Yan,
  • Geng Chen,
  • Yiwen Huang,
  • Luqiang Huang and
  • Daliang Li

27 July 2023

One of the main challenges faced in food safety is the accumulation of toxic heavy metals from environmental sources, which can sequentially endanger human health when they are consumed. It is invaluable to establish a practical assay for the determi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,860 Views
12 Pages

21 January 2020

(1) Background: The validation of hygiene procedures in food industries is paramount to ensure that food contact surfaces are properly decontaminated before production. Rapid, sensitive and reliable tools are needed for routine hygiene validation in...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,015 Views
19 Pages

28 August 2025

The presence of foreign matter in food poses food safety issues for consumers and directly threatens the food supply chain. In order to ensure food quality and hygiene, promote economic efficiency, and protect consumers’ health rights, the rapi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,793 Views
31 Pages

1 July 2025

Escherichia coli (E. coli) remains a major concern in poultry production due to its ability to incite foodborne illness and public health crisis, zoonotic potential, and the increasing prevalence of antibiotic-resistant strains. The contamination of...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,678 Views
38 Pages

AI-Powered Innovations in Food Safety from Farm to Fork

  • Binfeng Yin,
  • Gang Tan,
  • Rashid Muhammad,
  • Jun Liu and
  • Junjie Bi

2 June 2025

Artificial intelligence is comprehensively transforming the food safety governance system by integrating modern technologies and building intelligent control systems that provide rapid solutions for the entire food supply chain from farm to fork. Thi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
8,677 Views
18 Pages

Detection of Mycotoxin Contamination in Foods Using Artificial Intelligence: A Review

  • Ashish Aggarwal,
  • Akanksha Mishra,
  • Nazia Tabassum,
  • Young-Mog Kim and
  • Fazlurrahman Khan

21 October 2024

Mycotoxin contamination of foods is a major concern for food safety and public health worldwide. The contamination of agricultural commodities employed by humankind with mycotoxins (toxic secondary metabolites of fungi) is a major risk to the health...

  • Review
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,454 Views
22 Pages

Paper-Based Electrochemical Biosensors for Food Safety Analysis

  • Bambang Kuswandi,
  • Mochammad Amrun Hidayat and
  • Eka Noviana

28 November 2022

Nowadays, foodborne pathogens and other food contaminants are among the major contributors to human illnesses and even deaths worldwide. There is a growing need for improvements in food safety globally. However, it is a challenge to detect and identi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,283 Views
14 Pages

26 October 2024

This study aims to detect starch adulteration in dairy products utilizing an artificial neural network (ANN) model. Globally, milk fraud represents a significant challenge to food safety, posing substantial health risks to consumers. In this context,...

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