Novel infrared spectroscopic tools for mycotoxin determination in foodstuffs for increased food safety
- Lebensmittel, Ernährung, Gesundheit
Abstract
The MCSOSPEC project will develop an innovative tool based on infrared spectroscopic fingerprinting techniques for the rapid on-site diagnosis of fungal diseases at the surface of foods or in liquid foodstuffs such as e.g. homogenized foodstuff or beverages. The enivsaged approach will enable the development of a compact yet highly sensitive tool, which will ensure that larger volumes of the cereals and foodstuffs can be probed, sensitively detected, and quantified. Moreover, the inherent molecular selectivity of the selected spectroscopy technique will offer highly complementary analytical information capable of simultaneously analysing different physico-chemical sample properties, thereby providing a broad range of molecular information on the investigated sample. Contaminants, which cannot be directly measured with automated fast methods due to low concentrations, may therefore be indirectly assessed either due to their plant-depleting bioactive effect (e.g., changes of metabolite profile) or the depletion of major plant components such as carbohydrates and proteins due to the presence of the natural contaminant-producing organism. The high information content of infrared spectroscopic analysis combined with multivariate calibration and data classification will provide a novel approach for rapid, high-throughput monitoring of plant main components obtaining rapid information on crop quality and safety essential for screening systems in the food and feed sector.
Project staff
Rudolf Krska
Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing.Dr.techn. Rudolf Krska
rudolf.krska@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-97301, 97302
BOKU Project Leader
01.11.2013 - 31.01.2016
BOKU partners
External partners
Union of Dairy, Beef, Food Industrialists and Producers of Turkey
partner
Fullwell Mill Ltd.
partner
MG Optical Solutions GmbH
partner
ICC Austria
partner
Cerveses La Gardenia SL
partner
University of Ulm
partner