Food Safety : Innovative Analytical Tools for Safety Assessment

Food safety and quality are key objectives for food scientists and industries all over the world. To achieve this goal, several analytical techniques (based on both destructive detection and nondestructive detection) have been proposed to fit the government regulations.

The book aims to cover all the analytical aspects of the food quality and safety assessment. For this purpose, the volume describes the most relevant techniques employed for the determination of the major food components (e.g. protein, polysaccharides, lipds, vitamins, etc.), with peculiar attention to the recent development in the field. Furthermore, the evaluation of the risk associated with food consumption is performed by exploring the recent advances in the detection of the key food contaminants (e.g. biogenic amines, pesticides, toxins, etc.).

Chapters tackle such subject as:

• GMO Analysis Methods in Food
• Current Analytical Techniques for the Analysis of Food Lipids
• Analytical Methods for the Analysis of Sweeteners in Food
• Analytical Methods for Pesticides Detection in Foodstuffs
• Food and Viral Contamination
• Application of Biosensors to Food Analysis

Umile Gianfranco Spizzirri obtained his PhD in Development of Molecules of Pharmaceutical Interest in 2005 from the University of Calabria. He is currently a member of the Technical Staff at the Department  of Pharmacy, Nutrition and Health Science of the same University. His research activities are mainly related to the polymer chemistry and technology for the preparation of stimuli-responsive drug delivery system, functional polymers for food industry, and new analytical methodologies for the food quality and safety assessment. He is author and co-author of more than 100 publications, including research and review article as well as invited book chapters.

Giuseppe Cirillo received his PhD in “Methodologies for the Development of Molecules of Pharmaceutical Interest” in 2008 from the University of Calabria Italy. He is currently is in a post-doctoral position at the same University. His research interests are in the development of functional polymers with tailored biological activity (antioxidant, antimicrobial, anticancer, chelating), the design of smart hydrogels for drug delivery, the study of the activity of innovative functional foods and nutraceuticals, and the synthesis and functionalization of carbon nanotubes-based devices for biomedical applications. He is author and co-author more than 100 publications, including research and review article as well as invited book chapters.