Nanotechnology in food safety and quality assessment: potentiality of nanoparticles in diagnosis of foodborne pathogens

A rapid microbial detection in different biological and environmental material is a key of preventing several foodborne diseases. By implementing nanotechnology into food safety sector, a great step towards successful, reliable and sensible detection methods of foodborne pathogens has been achieved....

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Main Author: Primec Maša
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2016-12-01
Series:Agricultura
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spelling doaj-37b1c293648641fe994886ecd035de8f2020-11-25T02:31:28ZengSciendoAgricultura1581-54392016-12-01131-2213210.1515/agricultura-2017-0004agricultura-2017-0004Nanotechnology in food safety and quality assessment: potentiality of nanoparticles in diagnosis of foodborne pathogensPrimec Maša0University of Maribor, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Pivola 10, 2311 Hoče, SloveniaA rapid microbial detection in different biological and environmental material is a key of preventing several foodborne diseases. By implementing nanotechnology into food safety sector, a great step towards successful, reliable and sensible detection methods of foodborne pathogens has been achieved. Therefore, the aim of this review was to illustrate some of the principal functions of nanotechnology-based techniques, used for microbial detection in the last few years. Regarding consumer’s health, the review also discusses the question of safety, concerning human exposure to nanomaterials (NMs). Due to their different composition-unique properties, such as greater penetrability, reactivity and high surface to volume ratio, NMs have been coupled to several biomolecules and integrated in special system devices, resulting in improvement of sensitivity in transmitting biological signal informations in a shorter time. Among all the NMs, gold, magnetic and fluorescent nanoparticles (NPs) have been widely used, also in microbial diagnosis. Despite the success of linking nanotechnology to detection of foodborne pathogens, the exposure to various NMs could also be a matter of potential risk to human health, although conclusions still need to be definitely proven.http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/agricultura.2016.13.issue-1-2/agricultura-2017-0004/agricultura-2017-0004.xml?format=INTnanotechnologyfood safetynanoparticlesdiagnosisfoodborne pathogens
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Nanotechnology in food safety and quality assessment: potentiality of nanoparticles in diagnosis of foodborne pathogens
Agricultura
nanotechnology
food safety
nanoparticles
diagnosis
foodborne pathogens
author_facet Primec Maša
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title Nanotechnology in food safety and quality assessment: potentiality of nanoparticles in diagnosis of foodborne pathogens
title_short Nanotechnology in food safety and quality assessment: potentiality of nanoparticles in diagnosis of foodborne pathogens
title_full Nanotechnology in food safety and quality assessment: potentiality of nanoparticles in diagnosis of foodborne pathogens
title_fullStr Nanotechnology in food safety and quality assessment: potentiality of nanoparticles in diagnosis of foodborne pathogens
title_full_unstemmed Nanotechnology in food safety and quality assessment: potentiality of nanoparticles in diagnosis of foodborne pathogens
title_sort nanotechnology in food safety and quality assessment: potentiality of nanoparticles in diagnosis of foodborne pathogens
publisher Sciendo
series Agricultura
issn 1581-5439
publishDate 2016-12-01
description A rapid microbial detection in different biological and environmental material is a key of preventing several foodborne diseases. By implementing nanotechnology into food safety sector, a great step towards successful, reliable and sensible detection methods of foodborne pathogens has been achieved. Therefore, the aim of this review was to illustrate some of the principal functions of nanotechnology-based techniques, used for microbial detection in the last few years. Regarding consumer’s health, the review also discusses the question of safety, concerning human exposure to nanomaterials (NMs). Due to their different composition-unique properties, such as greater penetrability, reactivity and high surface to volume ratio, NMs have been coupled to several biomolecules and integrated in special system devices, resulting in improvement of sensitivity in transmitting biological signal informations in a shorter time. Among all the NMs, gold, magnetic and fluorescent nanoparticles (NPs) have been widely used, also in microbial diagnosis. Despite the success of linking nanotechnology to detection of foodborne pathogens, the exposure to various NMs could also be a matter of potential risk to human health, although conclusions still need to be definitely proven.
topic nanotechnology
food safety
nanoparticles
diagnosis
foodborne pathogens
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