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Electrochemical Sensors for the Detection of Food Adulterants in Miniaturized Settings

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Nanosensing and Bioanalytical Technologies in Food Quality Control

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Intentional and unintentional adulteration of food deceives the people and can cause risk to their health. This book chapter provides an overview about the classification of adulterants and types of food adulteration in different food samples such as milk, meat, fish, vegetables, water, and fruit juices and also the conventional methods employed to detect adulteration. The main focus of this book chapter is to provide a detailed review of the different kinds of miniaturized electrochemical sensors, applied for the detection of food adulterants like melamine, urea, hydrogen peroxide, formaldehyde, inappropriate animal meat, synthetic dyes, pesticides, fungicides, veterinary drugs, microbial toxins, and heavy metal ions. Finally, the overall observation, challenges, and future recommendation about the electrochemical sensors were discussed towards the transformation of the research findings into sensitive and affordable miniaturized devices.

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    Ananthappan Periyasamy, Seena Selvam, Arunbalaji Chellakannu & Vasantha Vairathevar Sivasamy

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Periyasamy, A., Selvam, S., Chellakannu, A., Sivasamy, V.V., Mariakuttikan, J. (2022). Electrochemical Sensors for the Detection of Food Adulterants in Miniaturized Settings. In: Chandra, P., Panesar, P.S. (eds) Nanosensing and Bioanalytical Technologies in Food Quality Control. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7029-9_7

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