Workshop on Novel Sampling and Sensing for Improving Food Safety-Georgia Institute of Technology-November, 2010

摘要食品行业是美国最大的雇主之一，其收入超过2.25万亿美元。食品污染可能发生在食品生产线上的任何地方，从农场到餐桌，包括生产、收获、分配系统和储存设施、加工厂、零售地点以及家庭准备过程。为了解决食品安全问题，必须加快技术创新和实施。变革性创新需要多学科研究，需要来自不同学科的工程师、科学家和政策专家参与。本次研讨会的目标是建立一个多学科工作组，以确定食品安全监测中的关键挑战，并讨论工程方面的最新技术进展，以激发创新方法来提高食品安全和预防灾害。我们将通过将来自工业界、政府实验室和学术界的专家和研究人员聚集在一起，组建跨学科团队，有效地解决当前的不足，并实施创新的技术解决方案，来实现这些目标。这些研究团队将包括食品微生物学、材料科学、化学传感、生物传感、自动化和数据融合方面的专家。讲习班的范围将是分析从农场到餐桌的系统，并确定关键的研究和技术需求，以帮助简化食品安全监测，从而在全球相互关联的系统中优化安全食品的生产和交付。会议的重点将是食品安全法规、产品测试中的当前挑战、样品浓缩和处理技术的创新，以及新型传感器和生物传感器技术。通过研讨会的结论，由多学科工作组联合发起的讨论将指导未来的研究重点，并为跨学科的食品传感领域提供基础。

ABSTRACTThe food industry is one of the largest employers by sector in the U.S., accounting for over $2.25 trillion in revenue. Food contamination can occur anywhere along the food production line, from farm to fork, including production, harvest, distribution systems and storage facilities, processing plants, retail locations, and during home preparation. In order to address food safety concerns, technological innovation and implementation must accelerate. Transformative innovations require multidisciplinary research that engages engineers, scientists, and policy experts from a variety of disciplines. The goal of this workshop is to create a multidisciplinary task force that will identify key challenges in food safety monitoring and discuss recent technological advances in engineering in order to provoke innovative approaches to increase food safety and prevent disaster. We will accomplish these goals by bringing together experts and researchers from industry, government labs, and academia to assemble interdisciplinary teams to productively address current shortcomings and implement innovative technological solutions. These research teams will include experts in food microbiology, materials science, chemical sensing, biosensing, automation, and data fusion. The scope of the workshop will be to analyze the farm-to-fork system and to identify the key research and technology needs to help streamline food safety monitoring thereby optimizing production and delivery of safe foods in a globally interconnected system. The foci will be on food safety regulations, current challenges in product testing, innovations in sample concentration and processing technologies, and novel transducer and biosensor technologies. By the workshop conclusion, discussions provoked by the union of multidisciplinary working groups will direct future research priorities and provide the foundation for an interdisciplinary field of Food Sensing.