Biosensors for sustainable food - new opportunities and technical challenges / edited Viviana Scognamiglio, Giuseppina Rea, Fabiana Arduini and Giuseppe Palleschi.
Front Cover; Biosensors for Sustainable Food -- New Opportunities and Technical Challenges; Advisory Board; Biosensors for Sustainable Food -- New Opportunities and Technical Challenges; Copyright; Contents; Contributors to Volume 74; Series Editor's Preface; Preface; I -- Biosensors for Food Safety, Quality and Security; 1 -- Biosensor Potential in Pesticide Monitoring; 1. INTRODUCTION; 1.1 Pesticides: Properties, Persistence and Regulation; 1.1.1 Herbicides; 1.1.2 Insecticides; 1.1.3 Fungicides; 2. FOODS: SAMPLING AND PRETREATMENT; 3. SENSING OF PESTICIDES FOR FOOD SAFETY; 3.1 Enzyme Biosensors.
3.2 Immunosensors3.3 Aptasensors; 3.4 Molecularly Imprinted Polymers; 4. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES; REFERENCES; 2 -- Trends on Biosensing Systems for Heavy Metal Detection; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. INDUSTRIAL USES OF HEAVY METALS; 3. RELEASE OF HEAVY METALS IN THE ENVIRONMENT AND EXPOSURE TO HUMANS; 4. TOXICITY MECHANISMS AND HARMFUL EFFECTS OF HEAVY METALS TO LIVING BEINGS; 5. HEAVY METAL ION DETECTION BY CONVENTIONAL METHODS; 6. WHY BIOSENSOR IS CONSIDERED AS A PROMISING TOOL TO DETECT HEAVY METAL IONS OVER CONVENTIONAL METHODS.
7. DIFFERENT STRATEGIES FOR BROAD RANGE AND SPECIFIC HEAVY METAL ION BIOSENSORS7.1 Enzymatic Biosensors; 7.1.1 Apoenzyme-Based Biosensors; 7.1.2 Holoenzyme-Based Biosensors; 7.2 Nonenzymatic Biosensors; 7.2.1 Metal-Binding Proteins; 7.2.2 Antibodies-Based Biosensors; 7.3 Whole Cell-Based Biosensors; 7.3.1 Recombinant Biosensors; 7.4 DNA-Based Biosensors; 7.5 Aptamer-Based Biosensor; 8. CONCLUSION AND SCOPE; 9. FUTURE PERSPECTIVES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; 3 -- Sensing of Biological Contaminants: Pathogens and Toxins; 1. INTRODUCTION; 1.1 Prevalence of Pathogen Contamination.
1.2 Current Methods for Their Detection in Food Industry1.3 Difficulties of Pathogen Detection in Food Samples; 2. COMMON BIOSENSORS AND BIORECEPTORS; 2.1 Mass-Based Biosensors; 2.1.1 Quartz Crystal Microbalance; 2.1.2 Cantilevers; 2.1.3 Summary of Mass-Based Biosensor Sensitivities; 2.2 Optical Biosensors; 2.2.1 Surface Plasmon Resonance; 2.2.2 Improvements Upon SPR; 2.3 Electrochemical Biosensors; 2.3.1 Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy; 2.3.2 Potentiometric Biosensors; 2.4 Field-Effect Transistor/Chemiresistor Biosensors; 3. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Note
Includes index.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary
"This comprehensive book addresses the challenges associated with sustaining the globally increasing demand for food that has been forecast for the next centuries and the immediate need for the food production system to adopt sustainable practices to protect the environment and human health."-- Publisher's website.
