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Advances in nondestructive methods for meat quality and safety monitoring.

Kutsanedzie, F. Y.; Guo, Z.; Chen, Q. (Materials Science and Engineering:, 2019)

Meat is highly perishable and poses health threats when its quality and safety is unmonitored. Chemical methods of quality and safety determination are expensive, time-consuming and lack real-time monitoring applicability. ...
Feasibility study on nondestructively sensing meat's freshness using light scattering imaging technique.

Li, H.; Sun, X.; Pan, W.; Kutsanedzie, F. Y.; Zhao, J.; Chen, Q. (Meat Science, 2016)

Rich nutrient matrix meat is the first-choice source of animal protein for many people all over the world, but it is also highly susceptible to spoilage due to chemical and microbiological activities. In this work, we ...
Highly sensitive and label-free determination of thiram residue using surface-enhanced raman spectroscopy (SERS) coupled with paper-based microfluidics.

Zhu, J.; Chen, Q.; Kutsanedzie, F. Y.; Yang, M.; Ouyang, Q.; Jiang, H. (Analytical Methods, 2017)

In this study, a paper-based microfluidic surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) device was employed for the determination of trace level thiram. The paper-based microfluidic device was fabricated by cutting a hydrophilic ...
Hydrothermal fabrication of MoS2/reduced graphene oxide nanohybrid composite for the electrochemical sensing of Hg (II) in green tea.

Annavaram, V.; Somala, A. R.; Chen, Q.; Kutsanedzie, F. Y.; Agyekum, A. A.; Zareef, M.; Hassan, M. M. (Materials Today: Proceedings, 2022)

Heavy metal contamination is a standout among the most genuine ecological issues: toxicity, persistence, bioaccumulation, and biomagnification through food chains. The present work aims at the synthesis of abundant, ...
In situ cocoa beans quality grading by near-infrared-chemodyes systems.

Kutsanedzie, F. Y.; Chen, Q.; Sun, H.; Cheng, W. (Analytical Methods, 2017)

Fermentation level is a key bean quality indicator in the cocoa industry. Colorimetric sensor e-nose (CS e-nose) and an innovatively designed near infrared chemo-intermediary-dyes spectra technique (NIR-CDS) combined with ...
A nanosystem composed of upconversion nanoparticles and N, N-diethyl-p-phenylenediamine for fluorimetric determination of ferric ion.

Chen, M.; Kutsanedzie, F. Y.; Cheng, W.; Agyekum, A. A.; Li, H.; Chen, Q (Microchimica Acta, 2018)

A system composed of upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) and N,N-diethyl-p-phenylenediamine (EPA) is shown to be a useful probe for highly sensitive and selective fluorometric determination of ferric ion. The fluorescence ...
Near infrared chemo-responsive dye intermediaries spectra-based in-situ quantification of volatile organic compounds.

Kutsanedzie, F. Y.; Hao, L.; Yan, S.; Ouyang, Q.; Chen, Q. (Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2018)

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) detection and measurement in materials with near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) have been an unresolved constraint till date. This paper focused on the use of NIRS for rapid detection and ...
Near infrared system coupled chemometric algorithms for enumeration of total fungi count in cocoa beans neat solution

Kutsanedzie, F. Y.; Chen, Q.; Hassan, M. M.; Yang, M.; Sun, H.; Rahman, M. H. (Food Chemistry, 2018)

Total fungi count (TFC) is a quality indicator of cocoa beans when unmonitored leads to quality and safety problems. Fourier transform near infrared spectroscopy (FT-NIRS) combined with chemometric algorithms like partial ...
A novel nanoscaled chemo dye–based sensor for the identification of volatile organic compounds during the mildewing process of stored wheat.

Lin, H.; Kang, W.; Kutsanedzie, F. Y.; Chen, Q. (Food Analytical Methods, 2019)

This work presents a novel colorimetric sensor based on nanoscaled chemo dyes which can detect inert volatile organic compounds (VOCs) during the mildewing process of stored wheat. 1-Octen-3-ol and 3-octanone were selected ...
An overview on the applications of typical non-linear algorithms coupled with NIR spectroscopy in food analysis

Zareef, M.; Chen, Q.; Hassan, M. M.; Arslan, M.; Hashim, M. M.; Ahmad, W.; Kutsanedzie, F. Y.; Agyekum, A. A. (Food Engineering Reviews, 2020)

Near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy as a low-cost technique with its non-destructive fast nature, precision, control, accuracy, repeatability, and reproducibility has been extensively employed in most industries for food ...
Portable spectroscopy system determination of acid value in peanut oil based on variables selection algorithms.

Yang, M.; Chen, Q.; Kutsanedzie, F. Y.; Yang, X.; Guo, Z.; Ouyang, Q. (Measurement, 2017)

The acid value (AV) is an essential parameter for the quality and safety evaluation of peanut oil. In this study, for efficiently and real-time monitor of acid value (AV) in peanut oil, a portable spectroscopy system was ...
Prediction of amino acids, caffeine, theaflavins and water extract in black tea using FT-NIR spectroscopy coupled chemometrics algorithms

Zareef, M.; Chen, Q.; Ouyang, Q.; Kutsanedzie, F. Y.; Hassan, M. M.; Viswadevarayalu, A.; Wang, A. (Analytical Methods, 2018)

Fourier transform near-infrared spectroscopy (FT-NIRS), coupled with chemometrics techniques, was performed as a fast analysis technique to assess the quality of various components in black tea. Four PLS models, namely ...
Qualitative and quantitative analysis of chlorpyrifos residues in tea by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) combined with chemometric models

Zhu, J.; Agyekum, A. A.; Kutsanedzie, F. Y.; Li, H.; Chen, Q.; Ouyang, Q.; Jiang, H. (Lwt – Food Science and Technology, 2018)

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) combined with chemometric models were employed to develop a rapid, low-cost, and sensitive method for qualitative and quantitative analysis of chlorpyrifos residues in tea. Au@Ag ...
Quantifying total viable count in pork meat using combined hyperspectral imaging and artificial olfaction techniques.

Li, H.; Kutsanedzie, F. Y.; Zhao, J.; Chen, Q. (Food Analytical Methods, 2016)

Total viable count (TVC) of bacteria is one of the most important indexes in evaluation of quality and safety of meat. This study attempts to quantify the TVC content in pork by combining two nondestructive sensing tools ...
Rapid and nondestructive quantification of trimethylamine by FT-NIR coupled with chemometric techniques

Agyekum, A. A.; Kutsanedzie, F. Y.; Mintah, B. K.; Annavaram, V.; Zareef, M.; Hassan, M. M.; Chen, Q. (Food Analytical Methods, 2019)

This paper focused on the quick and nondestructive evaluation of trimethylamine (TMA-N) in fish storage which is sequent to its freshness, the key for controlling the quality and safety of fish products by combining Fourier ...
Rapid Detection and Prediction of Norfloxacin in Fish Using Bimetallic Au@ Ag Nano-Based SERS Sensor Coupled Multivariate Calibration.

Agyekum, A. A.; Kutsanedzie, F. Y.; Mintah, B. K.; Annavaram, V.; Braimah, A. O. (Food Analytical Methods, 2022)

Norfloxacin is an antibiotic in the fluoroquinolone family licenced for use in animals. However, residues in animal products can have negative consequences for consumers. As a result, residue detection in various food ...
Rapid Pseudomonas species identification from chicken by integrating colorimetric sensors with near-infrared spectroscopy.

Xu, Y.; Kutsanedzie, F. Y.; Sun, H.; Wang, M.; Chen, Q.; Guo, Z.; Wu, J. (Food Analytical Methods, 2018)

Pseudomonas spp. are the dominant spoilage bacteria which can cause chicken spoilage. Some traditional detection methods are often unsuitable for their rapid real-time detection. Thus, in this paper, a fusion strategy based ...
Ratiometric fluorescence detection of Cd2+ and Pb2+ by inner filter-based upconversion nanoparticle-dithizone nanosystem.

Chen, M.; Kutsanedzie, F. Y.; Cheng, W.; Li, H.; Chen, Q. (Microchemical Journal, 2019)

This paper reports a fluorescence sensor based on inner filter effect (IFE) between upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) and dithizone for the highly selective and sensitive detection of cadmium ion (Cd2+) and lead ion (Pb2+) ...
rGO-NS SERS-based coupled chemometric prediction of acetamiprid residue in green tea.

Hassan, M. M.; Chen, Q.; Kutsanedzie, F. Y.; Li, H.; Zareef, M.; Xu, Y.; Agyekum, A. A. (Journal of Food and Drug Analysis, 2019)

Pesticide residue in food is of grave concern in recent years. In this paper, a rapid, sensitive, SERS (Surface-enhanced Raman scattering) active reduced-graphene-oxide-gold-nano-star (rGO-NS) nano-composite nanosensor was ...
SERS-signal optimised AgNPs-plated-ZnO nanoflower-like structure synthesised for sensing applications

Jiao, T.; Kutsanedzie, F. Y.; Xu, J.; Viswadevarayalu, A.; Hassan, M. M.; Li, H.; Chen, Q. (Physics Letters A, 2019)

AgNPs-plated-ZnO nanoflower (NFs)-like structures (Ag@ZnO NFs) with optimised signals were synthesised via wet chemical method at different temperatures (50–80 °C). The enhancement factors (EFs) computed for the resultant ...

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