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    Electroanalytical Overview: Electrochemical Sensing Platforms for Food and Drink Safety

    Garcia-Miranda Ferrari, Alejandro ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1797-1519, Crapnell, Robert D ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8701-3933 and Banks, Craig E ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0756-9764 (2021) Electroanalytical Overview: Electrochemical Sensing Platforms for Food and Drink Safety. Biosensors, 11 (8). p. 291.

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    Abstract

    Robust, reliable, and affordable analytical techniques are essential for screening and monitoring food and water safety from contaminants, pathogens, and allergens that might be harmful upon consumption. Recent advances in decentralised, miniaturised, and rapid tests for health and environmental monitoring can provide an alternative solution to the classic laboratory-based analytical techniques currently utilised. Electrochemical biosensors offer a promising option as portable sensing platforms to expedite the transition from laboratory benchtop to on-site analysis. A plethora of electroanalytical sensor platforms have been produced for the detection of small molecules, proteins, and microorganisms vital to ensuring food and drink safety. These utilise various recognition systems, from direct electrochemical redox processes to biological recognition elements such as antibodies, enzymes, and aptamers; however, further exploration needs to be carried out, with many systems requiring validation against standard benchtop laboratory-based techniques to offer increased confidence in the sensing platforms. This short review demonstrates that electroanalytical biosensors already offer a sensitive, fast, and low-cost sensor platform for food and drink safety monitoring. With continued research into the development of these sensors, increased confidence in the safety of food and drink products for manufacturers, policy makers, and end users will result.

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