Nondestructive Testing of Food Quality

Joseph Irudayaraj, PhD, is an associate professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. With over 15 years of research and teaching experience in biological and food engineering, Dr. Irudayaraj has been a faculty member at the University of Saskatchewan, Utah State University, and Penn State. His current role at Purdue is to develop micro and nanosensors for food, health, and environmental applications. Christoph Reh, PhD, is a research scientist at Nestle Research Center, Lausanne, Switzerland working on scientific projects for innovative beverage concepts. Prior to his appointment he was involved for more than 10 years in process analytics including non-destructive testing for factory application and physico-chemical characterization of foods.

1. An Overview of Sensor Technology in Practice: The User's View. Christoph Reh. 2. The influence of Reference Methods on the Calibration of Indirect Methods. Heinz D. Isengard. 3. Ultrasound: New Tools for Product Improvement. Ibrahim Gulseren and John. N. Coupland. 4. Use of Near Infrared Spectroscopy in the Food Industry. Andreas Niemoeller and Dagmar Behmer. 5. Application of Mid-infrared Spectroscopy to Food Processing Systems. Colette C. Fagan and Colm P. O'Donnell. 6. Applications of Raman Spectroscopy for Food Quality Measurement. Ramazan Kizil and Joseph Irudayaraj. 7. Particle Sizing in the Food and Beverage Industry. Darrell Bancarz, Deborah Huck, Michael Kaszuba, David Pugh and Stephen Ward-Smith. 8. Online Image Analysis of Particulate Materials. Peter Schirg. 9. Recent Advances in Nondestructive Testing with Nuclear Magnetic Resonanace. Michael J. McCarthy and Young Jin Choi. 10. Electronic Nose Applications in the Food Industry. Parameswarakuma Mallikarjunan. 11. Biosensors: A Theoretical Approach to Understanding Practical Systems. Yegermal Atalay, Pieter Verbevon, Steven Vermir and Jeroen Lammertyn. 12. Techniques Based on the Measurement of Electrical Permittivity. Malcolm Byars