foodsniffer food safety at the point-of-need via monolithic spectroscopic chip identifying harmful...
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FOODSNIFFERFOOD Safety at the point-of-Need via monolithic spectroscopic
chip identiFying harmFul substances in frEsh pRoduce
NCSR ‘Demokritos’, GreeceCoordination – Optoelectronic Sensor Chip Design & Fabrication -Immnoassay Protocols & Surface Functionalization
VTT Technical Research Center of Finland Chip Design & Fabrication –Reader Electronics
TRUSTFOOD, The NetherlandsSmartphone Application – Dissemination & Exploitation Activities
Jobst Technologies GmbH, GermanyMicrofluidics & Filtration Modules
LioniX BV, The NetherlandsOptoelectronic Chip Evaluation
RIKILT, The NetherlandsAllergens and Mycotoxins Expert – Sample Extraction Protocols
EUROFINS, FranceSystem Evaluation & Correlation to Established Methods
University of Almeria, SpainSample Extraction – Validation Methods – Quality Control
Jagiellonian University, PolandSensor surface characterization
ThetaMetrisis SA, GreeceSystem Integration & Reader Development
Concern for our food is growing in Europe, driven by industrialized food production and repeated crises. Current analytical technology is too expensive and bound to laboratory tests. This problem requires more massive screening of food and water extending from the source to the point of consumption. A low-cost and portable system delivering analytical data to a central location would help to prevent or identify early any food safety threat outbreaks and thereby massively reduce human suffering and its associated financial cost on both sides of the global divide.
FOODSNIFFER is field-deployable and simple-to-use as a result of the integration of three major innovations: the all-silicon optoelectronic transducer based on Broad-Band Mach-Zehnder Interferometry that integrates the light-sources,
sensing elements, spectral analyzer and photodetectors, in a single chip and is capable of synchronous highly-sensitive label-free multi-analyte detection
the wafer-scale microfluidics and filtration systems into a disposable unit that unburden intensive sample preparation
the development of a low-power reader controlled by a smartphone through a custom-produced application. The software controls the sensor and also processes its signal and then sends the results securely via the internet during the on-the-spot food safety analysis.
FOODSNIFFER is a complete business solution which will be demonstrated in three areas of great importance to European society and regulators, viz. the detection of pesticide residues, mycotoxins and allergens in selected food categories in order to demonstrate field-based detection of harmful species at low concentrations, which is a feat unattained so far by any point-of-need system.
For further information please contact:Ioannis RaptisINN, NCSR ‘Demokritos’End Patriarchou Gregoriou Str.153 43 Aghia Paraskevi, GreeceE-mail: [email protected]: +30-210-6503265
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Detection limit achieved: 0.04% (v/v) bovine milk in goat milk.
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