Advanced Nondestructive Detection Technologies in Food

This book comprehensively introduces non-destructive methods for food quality (i.e. external, internal, sensory, components, and microbiological indicators) detection, through optics, acoustics, chemistry, imaging, and bionic sensing. It highlights in-situ detection of food quality and safety, including principles, signal processing, and analysis of data, non-destructive detection system, and application in the food industry for each method. First, this book introduces the principles and characteristics of various food non-destructive methods. As non-destructive measurements always involve obtaining big data for each testing, this book also describes in detail the signal and big data processing for each non-destructive method. The chapters also introduce the rapid portable detection equipment for food and agricultural products developed in recent years, as well as the intelligent monitoring equipment in the process of food processing. Relevant application cases are provided to help readers better understanding how to apply non-destructive technology for food quality detection. 

Jiewen Zhao 

Dr. Jiewen Zhao is a professor in the School of Food and Biological Engineering of Jiangsu University. He has been engaged in the research of non-destructive detection of food quality and safety for more than thirty years. His main research interest includes using NIR, computer vision, bionic sensors, spectral imaging and multi-sensors fusion technologies food quality and safety non-destructive detection, and online grading for food quality using non-destructive methods.