Division/Committee: [AGFD] Division of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

There are a projected 600 million cases of foodborne illnesses accompanied with 420,000 deaths worldwide annually. Recalls precipitated from food safety risks have a business impact of $578 billion annually. Food contaminants can be introduced at any stage of the food supply chain. Food traceability and monitoring are key factors to ensure food safety across the global supply chain. Because current food traceability and monitoring systems are neither smart enough in terms of type, relevance, and sensitivity for data collection, nor fast and cost-effective enough to address the challenges, food industry requires smarter technologies. This symposium will focus on advanced smart technologies (e.g., AI-based sensing, microfluidic "lab-on-a-chip", non-targeted metabolomics, engineered bacteriophages, IoT for food industry 4.0, etc.) that can be used to detect and monitor food chemical and microbiological hazards.

Xiaonan Lu

Professor, The University of British Columbia

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