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Book Light Scattering Technology for Food Property  Quality and Safety Assessment

Download or read book Light Scattering Technology for Food Property Quality and Safety Assessment written by Renfu Lu and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Light Scattering Technology for Food Property, Quality and Safety Assessment discusses the development and application of various light scattering techniques for measuring the structural and rheological properties of food, evaluating composition and quality attributes, and detecting pathogens in food. The first four chapters cover basic concepts, principles, theories, and modeling of light transfer in food and biological materials. Chapters 5 and 6 describe parameter estimation methods and basic techniques for determining optical absorption and scattering properties of food products. Chapter 7 discusses the spatially-resolved measurement technique for determining the optical properties of food and biological materials, whereas Chapter 8 focuses on the time-resolved spectroscopic technique for measuring optical properties and quality or maturity of horticultural products. Chapter 9 examines practical light scattering techniques for nondestructive quality assessment of fruits and vegetables. Chapter 10 presents the theory of light transfer in meat muscle and the measurement of optical properties for determining the postmortem condition and textural properties of muscle foods and meat analogs. Chapter 11 covers the applications of spatially-resolved light scattering techniques for assessing quality and safety of animal products. Chapter 12 looks into light scattering for milk and dairy processing. Chapter 13 examines the applications of dynamic light scattering for measuring the microstructure and rheological properties of food. Chapter 14 shows the applications of a biospeckle technique for assessing the quality and condition of fruits and vegetables. Chapter 15 provides a detailed description of Raman scattering spectroscopic and imaging techniques in food quality and safety assessment. Chapter 16, the final chapter, focuses on applications of light scattering techniques for the detection of food-borne pathogens.

Book Light Scattering Technology for Food Property  Quality and Safety Assessment

Download or read book Light Scattering Technology for Food Property Quality and Safety Assessment written by Renfu Lu and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Light Scattering Technology for Food Property, Quality and Safety Assessment discusses the development and application of various light scattering techniques for measuring the structural and rheological properties of food, evaluating composition and quality attributes, and detecting pathogens in food. The first four chapters cover basic concepts, principles, theories, and modeling of light transfer in food and biological materials. Chapters 5 and 6 describe parameter estimation methods and basic techniques for determining optical absorption and scattering properties of food products. Chapter 7 discusses the spatially-resolved measurement technique for determining the optical properties of food and biological materials, whereas Chapter 8 focuses on the time-resolved spectroscopic technique for measuring optical properties and quality or maturity of horticultural products. Chapter 9 examines practical light scattering techniques for nondestructive quality assessment of fruits and vegetables. Chapter 10 presents the theory of light transfer in meat muscle and the measurement of optical properties for determining the postmortem condition and textural properties of muscle foods and meat analogs. Chapter 11 covers the applications of spatially-resolved light scattering techniques for assessing quality and safety of animal products. Chapter 12 looks into light scattering for milk and dairy processing. Chapter 13 examines the applications of dynamic light scattering for measuring the microstructure and rheological properties of food. Chapter 14 shows the applications of a biospeckle technique for assessing the quality and condition of fruits and vegetables. Chapter 15 provides a detailed description of Raman scattering spectroscopic and imaging techniques in food quality and safety assessment. Chapter 16, the final chapter, focuses on applications of light scattering techniques for the detection of food-borne pathogens.

Book Nondestructive Evaluation of Agro products by Intelligent Sensing Techniques

Download or read book Nondestructive Evaluation of Agro products by Intelligent Sensing Techniques written by Jiangbo Li and published by Bentham Science Publishers. This book was released on 2021-01-22 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With rapid progress being made in both theory and practical applications, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming every aspect of life and leading the world towards a sustainable future. AI technology is fundamentally and radically affecting agriculture with a move towards smart systems. The outcome of this transition is improved efficiency, reduced environmental pollution, and enhanced productivity of crops. Nondestructive Evaluation of Agro-products by Intelligent Sensing Techniques is a reference which provides readers timely updates in the progress of intelligent sensing techniques used for nondestructive evaluation of agro-products. Chapters, each contributed by experts in food safety and technology, describe existing and innovative techniques that could be or have been applied to agro-products quality and safety evaluation, processing, harvest, traceability, and so on. The book includes 11 individual chapters, with each chapter focusing on a specific aspect of intelligent sensing techniques applied in agriculture. Specifically, the first chapter introduces the reader to representative techniques and methods for nondestructive evaluation. Subsequent chapters present detailed information about the processing and quality evaluation of agro-products (e.g., fruits, and vegetables), food grading, food tracing, and the use of robots for harvesting specialty crops. Key Features: - 11 chapters, contributed by experts that cover basic and applied research in agriculture - introduces readers to nondestructive evaluation techniques - covers food quality evaluation processes - covers food grading and traceability systems - covers frontier topics that represent future trends (robots and UAVs used in agriculture) - familiarizes the readers with several intelligent sensing technologies used in the agricultural sector (including machine vision, near-infrared spectroscopy, hyperspectral/multispectral imaging, bio-sensing, multi-technology fusion detection) - provides bibliographic references for further reading - gives applied examples on both common and specialty crops This reference is intended as a source of updated information for consultants, students and academicians involved in agriculture, crops science and food biotechnology. Professionals involved in food safety and security planning and policymaking will also benefit from the information presented by the authors.

Book Food Quality and Shelf Life

Download or read book Food Quality and Shelf Life written by Charis M. Galanakis and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food Quality and Shelf Life covers all aspects and challenges of food preservation, packaging and shelf-life. It provides information on the most important pillars in the field, starting with active and smart packaging materials, novel technologies, and control tools in all stages between production and consumer. The book gives emphasis to methodological approaches for sensory shelf-life estimation and the impact of packaging on sensorial properties. Researchers and professionals alike will find this reference useful, especially those who are interested in the performance evaluation of future packaging for fresh produce in the cold chain and temperature management in the supply chain. Presents insights regarding new trends in emerging technologies in the field Includes hot topics, such as modified atmosphere packaging and active materials to improve shelf-life Provides shelf-life assessment and modeling methodologies and accelerated shelf-life testing

Book Dry Beans and Pulses

Download or read book Dry Beans and Pulses written by Muhammad Siddiq and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die zweite Auflage des umfassendsten maßgeblichen Referenzwerks zu Erzeugung, Verarbeitung und Nährwert von Trockenbohnen ist jetzt erhältlich. Seit dem Erscheinen der ersten Auflage von Dry Beans and Pulses: Production, Processing, and Nutrition im Jahr 2012 hat die Beliebtheit von Hülsenfrüchten ? über die traditionelle Nutzung hinaus ? als nachhaltige, nährstoffreiche Zutat für Fleischalternativen und andere Lebensmittelprodukte beträchtlich zugenommen. In der vollständig überarbeiteten Neuauflage wird das Thema weiterhin unter Berücksichtigung der gesamten Wertschöpfungskette betrachtet. Die Leserinnen und Leser erhalten aktuelle Informationen über Züchtung, Zusammensetzung, Qualität, Nährwertprofile, Nachernte- und Verarbeitungstechniken, Lebensmittelsicherheit, die Bedeutung für die menschliche Gesundheit und viele weitere Aspekte. Ein Team von mehr als fünfzig Autoren betrachtet die aktuellen Forschungsergebnisse, Verbrauchertrends, neue Produkte und Fragen der Lebensmittelsicherheit bei der Verarbeitung von Trockenbohnen und Veredelungstechniken. Neu hinzugekommene Kapitel beschäftigen sich mit dem Hard-to-cook-Phänomen und anderen lagerungsbedingten Qualitätsmängeln, einer Qualitätsbewertung roher und verarbeiteter Hülsenfrüchte mit innovativen Technologien, der Nutzung von Trockenbohnen und Hülsenfrüchten als Zutat in verschiedenen Lebensmittelprodukten sowie der Produktion, Verarbeitung und dem Nährwertprofil von Faba-Bohnen, Kichererbsen und Linsen. Dieses umfassende Werk, das sich sowohl mit herkömmlich verwendeten als auch mit anderen Bohnenarten befasst, bietet den Leserinnen und Lesern: * Neue Themen, erweiterte Betrachtungen, durchgängig aktualisierte Referenzen sowie zusätzliche Abbildungen und Tabellen * Ausführliche Informationen zu den wichtigsten Aspekten der Produktionstechnologien, der Veredelung und der Kulinologie * Eine Analyse von Produktion und Verbrauch auf globaler Ebene, von Verpackung und Vertrieb sowie der Bioverfügbarkeit der bioaktiven Substanzen im Rahmen der Ernährung * Eine Darstellung der weltweiten Bemühungen zur Verbesserung der Qualität und Nutzung von Trockenbohnen und Hülsenfrüchten * Eine Besprechung der aktuellen Trends und neuer Anwendungen der antioxidativen Eigenschaften von Trockenbohnen als Functional Food * Kapitel aus der Feder von Experten in Fachbereichen wie Pflanzenbau, Gartenbau, Lebensmittelwissenschaft und -technologie, Lebensmittelbiochemie und -technik sowie Ernährungs- und Umweltwissenschaften Die zweite Auflage von Dry Beans and Pulses: Production, Processing, and Nutrition ist eine Pflichtlektüre für Lebensmittel- und Ernährungswissenschaftler, Agronomen, Forscher, Fachleute für Lebensmittelverarbeitung und Lebensmittelsicherheit sowie Lebensmitteltechniker und -chemiker, die sich mit der Verarbeitung von Trockenbohnen und Veredelungstechnologien beschäftigen.

Book Hyperspectral Imaging in Agriculture  Food and Environment

Download or read book Hyperspectral Imaging in Agriculture Food and Environment written by Alejandro Isabel Luna Maldonado and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the novel aspects and future trends of the hyperspectral imaging in agriculture, food, and environment. The topics covered by this book are hyperspectral imaging and their applications in the nondestructive quality assessment of fruits and vegetables, hyperspectral imaging for assessing quality and safety of meat, multimode hyperspectral imaging for food quality and safety, models fitting to pattern recognition in hyperspectral images, sequential classification of hyperspectral images, graph construction for hyperspectral data unmixing, target visualization method to process hyperspectral image, and soil contamination mapping with hyperspectral imagery. This book is a general reference work for students, professional engineers, and readers with interest in the subject.

Book Food Biofortification Technologies

Download or read book Food Biofortification Technologies written by Agnieszka Saeid and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biofortification, which can be defined as the process of increasing the content/density of essential nutrients and/or its bioavailability of food with valuable compounds, is a promising means of increasing nutrient intakes. Traditional fortification practices in which exogenous nutrients are added to food can increase the content of nutrients but the use of biofortified foods with nutrients also may deliver the compounds in a more available form, as well as boost the overall relative effectiveness of these foods in raising nutrients status. Food Biofortification Technologies presents the state of the art in the field of novel methods of fortification and agricultural treatments as a way to improve the quality of obtained food products or compounds enriched with valuable nutrients. The book deals with fortification methods and agricultural treatments, which can improve the quality of food products or other agricultural compounds, providing them with a higher density of valuable nutrients. The utilization of novel products, such as feed additives and fertilizers, can avert nutrients depletion in food products. The book describes new and conventional methods of introducing valuable compounds into food components and presents the application of biosorption, bioaccumulation, and utilization of fertilizers in obtaining designer food. Attention is paid to the use of biomass as the carrier of nutrients such as microelements into the food components. The chapters are dedicated to specific food products and their nutrient components. The first chapter discusses the agronomic biofortification with micronutrients where the fertilization strategies are pointed out as a key to plant/cereals fortification. Other chapters present the fortification of animal foodstuffs such as meat, fish, milk, and eggs as well as the fortification of plant foodstuffs such as vegetables, fruits, and cereals. The book also explores advances in food fortification with vitamins and co-vitamins, essential minerals, essential fatty and amino acids, phytonutrients, and enzymes.

Book Innovative Technologies in Seafood Processing

Download or read book Innovative Technologies in Seafood Processing written by Yesim Ozogul and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-09-04 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While conventional technologies such as chilling and freezing are used to avoid deteriorative processes like autolytic and microbial spoilage of seafood, innovative technologies have also been developed as a response to economic and environmental demands. Innovative Technologies in Seafood Processing gives information on advances in chilling, freezing, thawing, and packaging of seafood and also updates knowledge of novel process technologies (high-pressure processing, irradiation, ultrasound, pulsed electric field, microwave and radio frequency, sous vide technology, novel thermal sterilization technologies, ozone and nanotechnological applications, and other innovative technologies such as cold plasma, ohmic heating, infrared heating supercritical carbon dioxide, and high-intensity pulsed light) for the seafood industry. Features Reviews novel process technologies applied in the seafood industry Highlights processing effects on product quality and safety of treated seafood Focuses on the development of safe and effective natural antimicrobials and additives Assesses alternative techniques to utilize fish discards and waste as high value products Further it highlights aspects related to quality of seafood treated with these innovative technologies, effect on food constituents, possible risk, security/safety both of seafood and consumers, the environmental impact, and the legislative aspects. The book also addresses the growing international environmental concern for fish discards and fish waste generated in the seafood processing industries by including a chapter, Advances in Discard and By-Products Processing, which assesses alternative techniques to utilize fish discards and waste as high value products. This book will be of value to researchers and technicians in the food technology area, especially those dealing with seafood.

Book Advances in Heat Transfer Unit Operations

Download or read book Advances in Heat Transfer Unit Operations written by Georgina Calderon-Dominguez and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in Heat Transfer Unit Operations: Baking and Freezing in Bread Making explains the latest understanding of heat transfer phenomena involved in the baking and freezing of bread and describes the most recent advanced techniques used to produce higher quality bread with a longer shelf life. Heat transfer phenomena occur during key bread-making stages (cold storage, resting, and fermentation) in which temperature and amount of heat transfer must be carefully controlled. This book combines the engineering and technological aspects of heat transfer operations and discusses how these operations interact with the bread making process; the book also discusses how baking and freezing influence the product quality. Divided into fourteen chapters, the book covers the basics of heat and mass transfer, fluid dynamics, and surface phenomena in bread-making industrial operations, mathematical modelling in porous systems, the estimation of thermo-physical properties related to bread making, design of equipment, and industrial applications.

Book Engineering Principles of Unit Operations in Food Processing

Download or read book Engineering Principles of Unit Operations in Food Processing written by Seid Mahdi Jafari and published by Woodhead Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engineering Principles of Unit Operations in Food Processing, volume 1 in the Woodhead Publishing Series, In Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry series, presents basic principles of food engineering with an emphasis on unit operations, such as heat transfer, mass transfer and fluid mechanics. Brings new opportunities in the optimization of food processing operations Thoroughly explores applications of food engineering to food processes Focuses on unit operations from an engineering viewpoint

Book Food Nanotechnology

    Book Details:
  • Author : C. Anandharamakrishnan
  • Publisher : CRC Press
  • Release : 2019-01-22
  • ISBN : 1498767184
  • Pages : 438 pages

Download or read book Food Nanotechnology written by C. Anandharamakrishnan and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nanotechnology offers great potential to revolutionize conventional food science and the food industry. The use of nanotechnology in the food industry promises improved taste, flavor, color, texture, and consistency of foodstuffs and increased absorption and bioavailability of nutraceuticals. Food Nanotechnology: Principles and Applications examines the current state of nanoscale phenomena and processes, benefits and risks of nanotechnology. This work contains 18 chapters particularly focused on the design, production, and utilization of nanoparticles, with specific applications for the food industry. Through several studies, it has been proven that nanotechnology can offer distinct advantages over conventional methods in terms of functionality, targeted delivery of food bioactive compounds, improved food quality characteristics like texture, taste, sensory attributes and improved stability in the gastrointestinal tract, and controlled release profiles. Features Offers clear and concise coverage on application of nanotechnology in nutrient delivery, food packaging, and pathogen/pesticide detection Addresses both the technological aspects of delivering nano-based food products and the societal implications that affect take-up Covers broad range of topics including nanoemulsification, electrospraying, nanocomposites, plasma processing, and nanosensors Discusses different formulation and preparation methods for loading food bioactive compounds Exploratory in nature, this book presents the latest of such data on all aspects of applications of nanotechnology in food systems. With its practical focus on the fabrication and application of nanotechnology in food, this book is a valuable resource for students, researchers, food process engineers.

Book Trends in Fish Processing Technologies

Download or read book Trends in Fish Processing Technologies written by Daniela Borda and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The high market demand based on consumers’ trust in fish as a healthy and nutritious food resource made fish processing a very dynamic industry, spurring many innovations in processing and packaging methods. Trends in Fish Processing Technologies not only reflects what is currently new in fish processing but also points out where things are heading in this area. This book provides an overview of the modern technologies employed by the industry. It details the advances in fish processing, including high pressure processing (HPP), pulsed electric field (PEF) treatment and minimally heat processing combined with microwave (MW) and radio-frequency (RF). It provides references to food safety management systems and food safety & quality indicators for processed fish in order to achieve an adequate level of protection. Quality aspects and molecular methods for the assessment of fish and fish products integrity are introduced. Fish products reformulation trends based on sustainability principles that tackles the reduction of salt content and the use of natural antimicrobials are presented. Innovative packaging solutions for fish products are explored, detailing intelligent packaging with freshness and time-temperature indicators, applications of modified packaging atmosphere, antimicrobial bio-nanocomposite packaging materials and biodegradable edible films used as primary fish packaging. In addition to covering the current advancements in fish processing the book discusses fraud, adulteration, fair trade practices, traceability and the need for added value, clean and sustainable processing in the fish chain.

Book Postharvest Handling

Download or read book Postharvest Handling written by Wojciech J. Florkowski and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2021-12-05 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This newly revised fourth edition of Postharvest Handling brings new and updated chapters with new knowledge and applications from postharvest research. The revised edition brings back the aspects of preharvest conditions and their effects on postharvest quality and features new chapters on the increasingly important role of transportation and logistics. It emphasizes consumers and systems thinking for postharvest chains for fresh produce. This book also explores current challenges—including oversupply, waste, food safety, lack of resources, sustainability — and best practices for systems to thrive in spite of these challenges. This unique resource provides an overview of postharvest systems and their role in food value chains and offers essential tools to monitor and control the handling process. Written by a team of experts in Postharvest Systems and Handling, this book continues to be the most practical and up-to-date resource for postharvest physiologists and technologists across the disciplines of agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, food science, and horticulture along with businesses handling fresh or minimally processed products. Features new chapters on packaging, transportation and logistics, and postharvest in the context of systems approach Brings aspects of pre-harvest conditions and their effects on postharvest quality Provides an overview of the postharvest system and its role in the food value chain, offering essential tools to monitor and control the handling process

Book Edible Oils

Download or read book Edible Oils written by Smain Chemat and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global oilseeds industry is expected to expand in the future but would also constitute a platform for a variety of other products from processing waste such as protein meals and aromatic compounds. Edible Oils: Extraction, Processing, and Applications intends to present up to date technologies that are currently used for the extraction and refining of Edible Oils while proposing potential applications for its derivatives. This contribution pushes to consider market transformation driven by environmental concerns and customer’s envy to bring quality attributes, energy efficiency and waste disposal into the heart of innovation. This work is aimed at professionals and academics including researchers, engineers and managers engaged in food and green engineering disciplines and ambitions to stand as a reference for students and lecturers. The readers will find a wealth of knowledge about the fundamentals of unit operations such as extraction and separation while presenting concepts of biorefinery for product and value creation from certain edible seeds. Novelties includes novel approaches for green solvent development in extraction, and examples of life cycle assessment of production systems for certain vegetable oils comprising product, service and waste management systems. Furthermore, this book focuses attention to production, processing, and current applications of palm oil, as an important commodity in Asia and addresses global market changes and important factors that influence its future prospects.

Book Smart Biosensor Technology

Download or read book Smart Biosensor Technology written by George K. Knopf and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the success of the first edition, this second edition continues to build upon fundamental principles of biosensor design and incorporates recent advances in intelligent materials and novel fabrication techniques for a broad range of real world applications. The book provides a multi-disciplinary focus to capture the ever-expanding field of biosensors. Smart Biosensor Technology, Second Edition includes contributions from leading specialists in a wide variety of fields with a common focus on smart biosensor design. With 21 chapters organized in five parts, this compendium covers the fundamentals of smart biosensor technology, important issues related to material design and selection, principles of biosensor design and fabrication, advances in bioelectronics, and a look at specific applications related to pathogen detection, toxicity monitoring, microfluidics and healthcare. Features Provides a solid background in the underlying principles of biosensor design and breakthrough technologies for creating more intelligent biosensors Focusses on material design and selection including cutting-edge developments in carbon nanotubes, polymer nanowires, and porous silicon Examines machine learning and introduces concepts such as DNA-based molecular computing for smart biosensor function Explores the principles of bioelectronics and nerve cell microelectrode arrays for creating novel transducers and physiological biosensors Devotes several chapters to biosensors developed to detect and monitor a variety of toxins and pathogens Offers expert opinions on the future directions, challenges and opportunities in the field

Book Spectroscopic Methods in Food Analysis

Download or read book Spectroscopic Methods in Food Analysis written by Adriana S. Franca and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 797 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the inherent complexity of food products, most instrumental techniques employed for quality and authenticity evaluation (e.g., chromatographic methods) are time demanding, expensive, and involve a considerable amount of manual labor. Therefore, there has been an increasing interest in simpler, faster, and reliable analytical methods for assessing food quality attributes. Spectroscopic Methods in Food Analysis presents the basic concepts of spectroscopic methods, together with a discussion on the most important applications in food analysis. The determination of product quality and authenticity and the detection of adulteration are major issues in the food industry, causing concern among consumers and special attention among food manufacturers. As such, this book explains why spectroscopic methods have been extensively employed to the analysis of food products as they often require minimal or no sample preparation, provide rapid and on-line analysis, and have the potential to run multiple tests on a single sample (i.e., non-destructive). This book consists of concepts related to food quality and authenticity, that are quite broad, given the different demands of the manufacturer, the consumer, the surveillance and the legislative bodies that ultimately provide healthy and safe products.

Book Food Chemistry

Download or read book Food Chemistry written by Mousumi Sen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-01-19 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOOD CHEMISTRY A unique book detailing the impact of food adulteration, food toxicity and packaging on our nutritional balance, as well as presenting and analyzing technological advancements such as the uses of green solvents with sensors for non-destructive quality evaluation of food. Food Chemistry: The Role of Additives, Preservatives and Adulteration is designed to present basic information on the composition of foods and the chemical and physical changes that their characteristics undergo during processing, storage, and handling. Details concerning recent developments and insights into the future of food chemical risk analysis are presented, along with topics such as food chemistry, the role of additives, preservatives, and food adulteration, food safety objectives, risk assessment, quality assurance, and control. Moreover, good manufacturing practices, food processing systems, design and control, and rapid methods of analysis and detection are covered, as well as sensor technology, environmental control, and safety. The book also presents detailed information about the chemistry of each major class of food additive and their multiple functionalities. In addition, numerous recent findings are covered, along with an explanation of how their quality is ascertained and consumer safety ensured. Audience The core audience of this book include food technologists, food chemists, biochemists, biotechnologists, food, and beverage technologists, and nanoscientists working in the field of food chemistry, food technology, and food and nanoscience. In addition, R&D experts, researchers in academia and industry working in food science/safety, and process engineers in industries will find this book extremely valuable.