Smartphone based devices (SBDs) have the potential to revolutionize food safety control by
empowering citizens to perform screening tests. To achieve this, it is of paramount …

Significance: Smartphones come with an enormous array of functionality and are being
more widely utilized with specialized attachments in a range of healthcare applications. A …

Total volatile basic nitrogen (TVB-N) content is the most widely used index for the
assessment of fish freshness. Herein, a smartphone-integrated colorimetric sensor of TVB-N …

Smartphone-based colorimetric sensors can be operated out of the laboratory, meeting
urgent needs such as point-of-care testing and on-site diagnostics. The quality of the …

Pathogenic bacteria contamination poses a major threat to human health. The detection of
low-abundance bacteria in complex samples has always been a knotty problem, and high …

Bacterial pathogens represent a safety concern in the food industry, and this is amplified by
the lack of sensing devices that can be applied on-site by non-trained personnel. In this …

Mycotoxins are dangerous human and animal health‐threatening secondary fungal
metabolites that can be found in various food and agricultural products. Several countries …

Standard methods for chemical food safety testing in official laboratories rely largely on
liquid or gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry. Although these methods are …

To avoid the interferences of coexisting ions from sample matrixes during CdTe quantum
dots (QDs) based fluorescence and colorimetric assay, an instrument-free paper-based …

Pesticides have been extensively used in agriculture to protect crops and enhance their
yields, indicating the need to monitor for their toxic residues in foodstuff. To achieve that …