Biosensor to Ensure Food Security and Environmental Control

Abstract

© 2016 Elsevier B.V.There is an urgent demand in the development of simple and reliable analytical systems for fast detection of potential hazards related to agriculture and food safety. In addition to toxic individual contaminants (pesticides and heavy metals) and biological threats (pathogens and toxins) considered in previous chapters, the biosensors developed for the estimation of food quality and general toxicity assessment are considered with particular emphasis to the problems of their application for real samples testing. The application of biosensors for the detection of food additives and total toxicity and genotoxicity estimation are reviewed for the past 10 years.