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Detection of food contaminants: A review of established rapid analytical techniques and their applications and limitations

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Food contaminants have consistently posed a serious threat to human health and have caused various food safety problems. The most common techniques currently used for the detection of food contaminants, include instrumental and immunoassay methods; however, these traditional methods have shown some limitations when applied to the analysis of food contaminants. Therefore, in recent years, more and more researchers have been devoted to the development of rapid, reliable, sensitive, and suitable detection techniques for the detection of food contaminants in food matrices. In this review, we first classify the analytical methods proposed in recent years into colorimetric methods, fluorescence methods, photoelectrochemical methods, electrochemical methods, nucleic acid amplification methods, and other methods, and illustrate their detection principles. In addition, the paper highlights the strategies and recent research advances for each method through typical application examples. Finally, the future perspectives of these analytical methods are presented. We hope that this review will provide researchers with valuable insights to guide the sensitive detection of food contaminants.

Source: Food Safety and Health

DOI: 10.1002/fsh3.12032

Authors: Zhiming Ling, Luyu Yang, Wanqing Zhang, Ting Yao, Hengyi Xu

Institution: Nanchang University

Language: English

Topic: Biosensors and Analytical Detection

Subfield: Biomedical Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: gold

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Funders: Nanchang University, State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology