Bio Sensors and Food Protection
The potential threat of bioterrorism and emerging diseases requires advances in biosensor technologies to meet requirements for food protection in the 21st century.
Although concerns about the safety of food products have existed for a very long time, it is only recently that we have begun to take a national security–based interest in both the monitoring and protection of the food supply and distribution pipeline.
Food production, preparation, and sales are highly regulated in the United States and elsewhere around the world. This regulation is, in part, designed to ensure that food does not contain any of a number of naturally occurring pathogens. The enfor…
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