Non-intrusive sensing for quantitative food analysis

用于定量食品分析的非侵入式传感

• 批准号: 700344
• 金额: $ 1.63万
• 依托单位: MEDICAL WIRELESS SENSING LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: GRD Proof of Market
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2014 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=700344
• 关键词: Non; intrusive; sensing; quantitative; food

The recent food scandals involving horsemeat in European beef products and Chinese milkcontaminated with melamine highlighted the increased consumer awareness in food purity,the importance of food integrity and the need for frequent analytical tests in the food supplychain. There is an increasing demand for novel monitoring methods that could provide fast,large-scale, and in situ quality controls. For example, a major challenge in this area is theidentification of the botanical origin of vegetable oils, and mainly the detection of thepresence of the ethically dubious palm oils in oil blends. The goal of this project is to developa commercial and market strategy surrounding a new methodology for non-intrusive foodsensing based on microwave technology, which uses low power radio waves to determine thematerial properties of a substance. The proposed FoodWise device will ensure that consumers,UK government bodies and reference laboratories will be employing cutting edge yet practicalmethodologies with respect to food production, processing, analysis, and contaminationdetection.

最近的食品丑闻涉及欧洲牛肉产品中的马肉和中国牛奶受三聚氰胺污染，突出表明消费者对食品纯度的认识有所提高，食品完整性的重要性以及食品供应链中频繁分析测试的必要性。人们对能够提供快速、大规模和原位质量控制的新型监测方法的需求日益增加。例如，这一领域的一个主要挑战是鉴定植物油的植物来源，主要是检测混合油中是否存在道德上可疑的棕榈油。该项目的目标是围绕基于微波技术的非侵入式食品传感新方法开发商业和市场战略，该技术使用低功率无线电波来确定物质的材料特性。拟议中的FoodWise设备将确保消费者、英国政府机构和参考实验室在食品生产、加工、分析和污染检测方面采用尖端而实用的方法。