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Aptamers for Food Applications: Safety, Authenticity, and Integrity outlines the main applications of aptamers to ensure food safety, quality and compliance that are crucial for food science, public health and human sustainability. Aptamers or aptamer-based analytical devices are comprehensively summarized to tackle various food contamination or food adulteration problems. Topics covered in this book include aptamers for foodborne microbial pathogens, pesticide or veterinary drug residues, heavy metals, biotoxins, abused food additives, illegal food adulterants, POPs, GMOs, food allergens and food contact material migrants. It is therefore of interest for not only analytical investigators and food safety inspectors, but also regulatory practitioners and risk assessors in various food science and research fields.
List of contents
1. Introduction of food safety, quality and compliance
2. Aptamer and its selection via various SELEX strategies
3. Aptamers for the analysis of foodborne microbial pathogens
4. Aptamers for the analysis of pesticide/veterinary drug residues
5. Aptamers for the analysis of heavy metals
6. Aptamers for the analysis of bio-toxins
7. Aptamers for the analysis of abused food additives
8. Aptamers for the analysis of illegal food adulterants
9. Aptamers for the analysis of Persistent Organic pollutants(POPs)
10. Aptamers for the analysis of GMOs
11. Aptamers for the analysis of food allergens
12. Aptamers for the analysis of food contact material migrants
13. Aptamers for the characterization of food authenticity and nutrition
14. Quality control of aptamer-based analysis for food applications
15. Challenges and future perspectives of Aptamers
About the author
Dr. Dong is a Research Professor, College of Life Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology and is a Senior Aptamer Scientist. Dr. Dong’s research specialization is in development of highly sensitive and specific analytical/bio-analytical methods with frontier molecular recognition mechanisms/elements (e.g. aptamers, antibodies) and applicative researches for fundamental biological research, food safety analysis, clinical diagnosis, agro-products quality control, environmental preservation, etc. He has published in books and several articles. He is a rising scientist who has won four awards, is a board member of Beijing Aptamer Society of China and Associate director of National Adolescent Food Quality Supervision & Inspection Center
