Abstract
Pathogen and toxin-contaminated foods and beverages are a major source of illnesses, even death, and have a significant economic impact worldwide. Human health is always under a potential threat, including from biological warfare, due to these dangerous pathogens. The agricultural and food production chain consists of many steps such as harvesting, handling, processing, packaging, storage, distribution, preparation, and consumption. Each step is susceptible to threats of environmental contamination or failure to safeguard the processes. The production process can be controlled in the food and agricultural sector, where smart sensors can play a major role, ensuring greater food quality and safety by low cost, fast, reliable, and profitable methods of detection. Techniques for the detection of pathogens and toxins may vary in cost, size, and specificity, speed of response, sensitivity, and precision. Smart sensors can detect, analyse and quantify at molecular levels contents of different biological origin and ensure quality of foods against spiking with pesticides, fertilizers, dioxin, modified organisms, anti-nutrients, allergens, drugs and so on. This paper reviews different methodologies to detect pathogens and toxins in foods and beverages.
Highlights
A significant concern all over the world is food safety
There are a lot of foodborne microorganisms which are responsible for foodborne diseases, which occur due to the contamination of food contaminated by such organisms as fungi, bacteria, and viruses
People who suffer foodborne diseases show some symptoms, such as vomiting, nausea and a disrupted nervous system, and these symptoms may occur in a short period or within 48 h, indicateing the seriousness of the contamination
Summary
There are a lot of foodborne microorganisms which are responsible for foodborne diseases, which occur due to the contamination of food contaminated by such organisms as fungi, bacteria, and viruses. These are called foodborne pathogens and are responsible for poisoning food and water [1]. A significant number of people have died due to foodborne diseases, and such pathogens are a priority and a critical health issue all over the world [3]. The high rate of foodborne diseases in many emerging countries presents major food safety concerns and difficulties; it is important to detect the responsible pathogens to reduce foodborne diseases. All of the symptoms may affect one person or a number of people from a community, eventually called an outbreak
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