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The end user sensor tree: An end-user friendly sensor database

  • Publication | 2019
Global Food and Nutrition Security

Detailed knowledge regarding sensor based technologies for the detection of food contamination often remains concealed within scientific journals or divided between numerous commercial kits which prevents optimal connectivity between companies and end-users. To overcome this barrier The End user Sensor Tree (TEST) has been developed. TEST is a comprehensive, interactive platform including over 900 sensor based methods, retrieved from the scientific literature and commercial market, for aquatic-toxins, mycotoxins, pesticides and microorganism detection. Key analytical parameters are recorded in excel files while a novel classification system is used which provides, tailor-made, experts’ feedback using an online decision tree and database introduced here. Additionally, a critical comparison of reviewed sensors is presented alongside a global perspective on research pioneers and commercially available products. The lack of commercial uptake of the academically popular electrochemical and nanomaterial based sensors, as well as multiplexing platforms became very apparent and reasons for this anomaly are discussed.

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Authors
J.L.D. Nelis
A.S. Tsagkaris
Y. Zhao
J. Lou-Franco
P. Nolan
H. Zhou
C. Cao
K. Rafferty
J. Hajslova
C.T. Elliott
K. Campbell
DOI
10.1016/j.bios.2019.01.055
Publisher
Elsevier
Originally published

17 Jul 2019

Knowledge service | MetadataGlobal Food and Nutrition Security | Sustainable Food Systems | Mycotoxin
Digital Europa Thesaurus (DET)databasefood contaminationpesticide
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