The role and importance of photonic sensors in seafood safety applications

Abstract

Microbiological, chemical, sensory analyses known as traditional methods are used for determination of fish quality including many concepts such as microbiological quality, sensory quality, nutritional properties, product specific properties, freshness, species-specific physical properties. With the developing technology; these time-consuming and error-free analyzes have been replaced by sensor technology, which is very suitable for quality measurements in order to achieve the expected speed and high standard and to be open to improvement. In this study, optical sensors and their applications are emphasized and a general evaluation is made about the usability of seafood processing technology in terms of food safety.