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The safety of agri-food supply chains remains under constant threat
from risks such as food adulteration, malicious contamination,
microbiological and chemical hazards, as well as the presence of
foreign bodies in food products. Developing smart agri-food supply
chains: Using technology to improve safety and quality provides an
authoritative assessment of recent developments to improve safety
and quality at key points in the agri-food supply chain. This
collection provides a comprehensive coverage of the methods used in
tracking and traceability (including detecting genetically-modified
organisms in food products), ways of assessing product integrity,
dealing with malicious contamination as well as quality assessment
and ensuring transparency in supply chains. Edited by Professor
Louise Manning, Royal Agricultural University, UK, Developing smart
agri-food supply chains: Using technology to improve safety and
quality will be a standard reference for those researching food
safety, agri-food logistics and supply chains in universities or
other research centres, as well as government and commercial
agencies responsible for safety and quality monitoring of agri-food
supply chains. It will also be a key reference for supply chain
actors, from farmers to food processors and retailers.
Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry, Volume 84, the latest release
in the Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry series, highlights new
advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting
chapters on the Current status of environmental monitoring,
Physical principles of infrared, Chemical principles of infrared,
Instrumentation and hardware, Data analysis, Sampling, Applications
in water, Application in soil and sediments, Applications in
ecology of animals and plants, Applications in air monitoring,
Applications in contamination, Applications in marine environments,
Advantages and pitfalls, and more.
Since Herschel discovered light in the near-infrared region as
early as 1800, the NIR region of the electromagnetic spectrum, once
regarded as having little potential for analytical work, has now
become one of the most promising techniques for molecular
spectroscopy in several analytical fields. Over the last three
decades, the development of new applications of infrared
spectroscopy has been associated with increased power of computers
and progress in chemometrics. This book introduces and presents
several novel applications of NIR spectroscopy in biology,
medicine, food science, the pharmaceutical sciences, polymers and
minerals, for the first time in a single book. It is written by an
international panel of scientists with a vast expertise in the
field of infrared spectroscopy, providing unique views and
perspectives on both practical and theoretical applications. This
book should serve as a reference source for undergraduate and
postgraduate students, scientists and researchers in the field of
infrared spectroscopy.
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