A photonic smart system for food quality and safety sensing: first integration and measurement results

The food safety issue is among the cornerstones of the environmental protection schemes worldwide and beside hazard issues, there is great concern about monitoring of food spoilage in a reliable way. Current practices of assessment of food spoilage still relies heavily on regulatory inspection and sampling regimes. A portable photonic multisensor device for the detection of food contaminations, spoilage and fraud is the objective of the EU PhasmaFOOD project. It will integrate different capabilities: spectroscopic detection (VIS/ NIR), imaging, smart signal processing, data analysis and comparison with updated models on cloud platform hosting data set for training and calibration of food analysis algorithms, user friendly interfaces by smartphone/tablet/PC also through wireless connection.