Background Food safety is becoming increasingly important because food industry must
provide quality products to minimize the health risks. Traditional methods to assure food …

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have been widely applied as highly efficient luminescence
quenchers in combination with a large variety of donor fluorophores. While the application of …

Sensitive, on-site and multiple detection of mycotoxins is a vital early-warning tool to
minimize food losses and protect human health and the environment. Although paper-based …

Abstract Fumonisin B1 (FB1), the most prevalent and highest toxicity mycotoxins among
fumonisins family, poses threats to human especially children and infants even at a trace …

Excessive intake of estrogen poses significant health risks to the human body; hence, there
is a necessity to develop rapid detection methods to monitor its levels of addition. Gold …

Significant improvements in disease management have been achieved in the past few
decades. Using cancer as an example, survival rates have increased dramatically in …

Apart from the obvious benefit of “trash-to-treasure”, the acquisition of natural nanomaterials
from cheap and renewable waste has been intensively researched because of various …

Foodborne pathogen contamination has become a severe threat to human health.
Traditional methods for foodborne pathogen detection have several disadvantages …

Antibody-based immunoassay is an important tool for detecting tetrodotoxin (TTX), a strong
neurotoxic with high mortality rate. However, the traditional immunoassays always suffer …

This review summarises developments that have been published in the period from mid-
2017 to mid-2018 on the analysis of various matrices for mycotoxins. Analytical methods to …