Title
Recent Advances and Applications of Rapid Microbial Assessment from a Food Safety Perspective
Abstract
Unsafe food is estimated to cause 600 million cases of foodborne disease, annually. Thus, the development of methods that could assist in the prevention of foodborne diseases is of high interest. This review summarizes the recent progress toward rapid microbial assessment through (i) spectroscopic techniques, (ii) spectral imaging techniques, (iii) biosensors and (iv) sensors designed to mimic human senses. These methods often produce complex and high-dimensional data that cannot be analyzed with conventional statistical methods. Multivariate statistics and machine learning approaches seemed to be valuable for these methods so as to "translate" measurements to microbial estimations. However, a great proportion of the models reported in the literature misuse these approaches, which may lead to models with low predictive power under generic conditions. Overall, all the methods showed great potential for rapid microbial assessment. Biosensors are closer to wide-scale implementation followed by spectroscopic techniques and then by spectral imaging techniques and sensors designed to mimic human senses.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.3390/s22072800
SENSORS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
sensors, machine learning, rapid methods, food microbiology
Journal
22
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
7
1424-8220
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5