When smartphone enters food safety: A review in on-site analysis for foodborne pathogens using smartphone-assisted biosensors

Tao Yang; Zisheng Luo; Tarun Bewal; Li Li; Yanqun Xu; Seid Mahdi Jafari; Xingyu Lin

doi:10.1016/j.foodchem.2022.133534

When smartphone enters food safety: A review in on-site analysis for foodborne pathogens using smartphone-assisted biosensors

Food Chem. 2022 Nov 15:394:133534. doi: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2022.133534. Epub 2022 Jun 20.

Authors

Tao Yang¹, Zisheng Luo², Tarun Bewal¹, Li Li¹, Yanqun Xu², Seid Mahdi Jafari³, Xingyu Lin⁴

Affiliations

¹ College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
² College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; Ningbo Research Institute, Zhejiang University, Ningbo, China.
³ Department of Food Materials and Process Design Engineering, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran.
⁴ College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; State Key Laboratory of Fluid Power and Mechatronic Systems, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; Ningbo Research Institute, Zhejiang University, Ningbo, China. Electronic address: xingyu@zju.edu.cn.

PMID: 35752124
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2022.133534

Abstract

Pathogens are one of the supreme threats for the public health around the world in food supply chain. The on-site monitoring is an emerging trend for screening pathogens during the food processing and preserving. Traditional analytical tools have been unable to satisfy the current demands. Smartphones have enormous potentials for achieving on-site detection of foodborne pathogens, with intrinsic advantages such as small size, high accessibility, fast processing speed, and powerful imaging capacity. This review aims to synthesize the current advances in smartphone-assisted biosensors (SABs) for sensing foodborne pathogens, and briefly put forward the problem that consist in the research. We present the role of nanotechnology and recognition modes targeting foodborne pathogens in SABs, and discuss the signal conversion platforms coupling with smartphone. The challenges and perspectives in SABs are also proposed. The smartphone analytics area is moving forward, and it much be subject to careful quality standards and validation.

Keywords: Food safety; Foodborne pathogens; On-site; Rapid detection; Smartphone.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Biosensing Techniques* / methods
Food
Food Handling
Food Microbiology
Food Safety
Foodborne Diseases* / prevention & control
Humans
Smartphone