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Climate change, desertification, environmental problems and unsustainable production, consumtion and life styles combined with the population growth have led to an unprecedented combination of pressures and trends can disrupt or enhance the safety of food. Foodborne hazards can occur in any part of the food chain and can have negative impact on human health and cause illnesses (i.e., malaria, tuberculosis, AIDS), disability and can be lethal1. Hence, human health, which relies on food and nutrition security and food safety, highlighted the importance of ensuring food safety to reach the goals set forth in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition. However, the gold standard methods for quantitative chemical food safety testing in official laboratories rely largely on sampling and transferring the samples to a central laboratory to be tested by highly trained personel and use of expensive equipments (i.e., LC-MS or GC-MS)2. Hence, there is an increasing need and demand for portable and handheld devices to provide rapid, eco-efficient, and on-site screening of food contaminants. The current technological trends rely on smartphone-based, microfluidic chip-based, and paper-based devices integrated with electrochemical and optical biosensing platforms in line with the World Health Organization benchmark for diagnostic tests (i.e., the Affordable, Sensitive, Specific, User-friendly, Rapid and Robust, Equipment-free, and Deliverable to end-users (ASSURED) criteria)1. Thus, the best features of different technologies should be combined to bridge technological gaps and meet commercialization requirements. In this work, the merits and demerits of current methods and methodologies used in analysis for food safety are presented together with the frontiers that the green analysis offers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
