Handheld Devices for Food Authentication and Their Applications: A Review.

ABSTRACT: This review summarises miniaturised technologies, commercially available devices, and device applications for food authentication or measurement of features that could potentially be used for authentication. We first focus on the handheld technologies and their generic characteristics: (1) technology types available, (2) their design and mode of operation, and (3) data handling and output systems. Subsequently, applications are reviewed according to commodity type for products of animal and plant origin. The 150 applications of commercial, handheld devices involve a large variety of technologies, such as various types of spectroscopy, imaging, and sensor arrays. The majority of applications, ~60%, aim at food products of plant origin. The technologies are not specifically aimed at certain

SUBMITTER: Muller-Maatsch J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8700508 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature