Fast detection and identification of microorganisms is a challenging and significant feature
from industry to medicine. Standard approaches are known to be very time-consuming and …

Food safety is a great public concern, and outbreaks of food-borne illnesses can lead to
disturbance to the society. Consequently, fast and nondestructive methods are required for …

Living organisms have evolved sophisticated cell-mediated biomineralization mechanisms
to build structurally ordered, environmentally adaptive composite materials. Despite …

Bacterial detection is a highly topical research area, because various fields of application
will benefit from the progress being made. Consequently, new and innovative strategies …

Background The irrational usage of chemical substances including pesticides and drugs in
agricultural and food production is a significant food safety issue due to its residues …

Major food adulteration and contamination events seem to occur with some regularity, such
as the widely publicised adulteration of milk products with melamine and the recent …

A fast and reliable detection and identification of microorganisms is crucial in environmental
science, for food quality as well as medical diagnosis. In these fields, all types of Raman …

Background Food safety and quality have gained much attention in recent years and the
capability to evaluate food quality and safety in a sensitive, rapid, and reliable manner is of …

Probiotic Lactobacillus can be used to reduce the colonization of pathogenic bacteria in food
animals, and therefore reduce the risk of foodborne illness to consumers. As a model …

Over the past decades, imaging and spectroscopy techniques have been developed rapidly
with widespread applications in non-destructive agro-food quality determination. Seeds are …