The quality of packaging plays a critical role for the product overall. Color, finishing and surface must satisfy the highest demands. It is absolutely crucial that the information found on packaging is accurate and clearly legible. This especially the case when it comes to folding boxes in the pharmaceutical, food and cosmetics industry. That is why each individual manufacturing process – from...

Quality of rice is defined from its physical and chemical characteristics. Quality of grains is required for protecting the consumers from substandard products because the samples of food materials are subjected to adulteration. This paper provides a solution to the problem of the rice industry for quality analysis. Computer Vision based Inspection provides one alternative for fast, accurate, c...

All the good news about seafood-the health and nutritional benefits, the wide varieties and flavors-has had a positive effect on consumption: people are eating more seafood (http://www.seagrant.sunysb.edu/seafood/pdfs/SeafoodSavvy.pdf). Yet consumers want to be assured that seafood is as safe as, or safer to eat than, other foods. When you hear "seafood safety", think of a safety net designed t...

A crucial step of food contamination inspection is identifying the species of beetle fragments found in the sample, since the presence of some storage beetles is a good indicator of insanitation or potential food safety hazards. The current pratice, visual examination by human analysts, is time consuming and requires several years of experience. Here we developed a species identification algori...

Globally, wheat is the leading source of vegetable protein in human food, having a higher protein content than other major cereals, maize (corn) or rice. In terms of total production tonnages used for food, India is currently second to wheat as the main human food crop and ahead of maize. Determining the quality of wheat is critical. Specifying the quality of wheat manually requires an expert j...

PURPOSE To summarize evidence on the effectiveness of public health interventions regarding food safety at restaurants, institutions, homes and other community-based settings. METHOD This systematic review of published and unpublished studies involved a comprehensive literature search, screening for relevance, quality assessment of relevant studies, data extraction and synthesis. RESULTS Th...

Color and size are two important attributes for quality evaluation of most food and bioproducts. Many of the quality factors affecting oil palm and white powder starch are determined primarily by visual inspection. Such inspections determined market price and to a certain extent consumers' preferences. However, the inspection of oil palm and white powder starch is a very repetitive and tedious ...

Recent progress in the field of biotechnology and the production of transgenic livestock has raised a question regarding the need for the regulation of these animals. There is also the need to regulate nontransgenic animals resulting from transgenic animal research. It is anticipated that several governmental agencies will be involved in regulatory issues pertaining to these animals. The United...

X-ray imaging has been developed not only for its use in medical imaging for human beings, but also for materials or objects, where the aim is to analyze –nondestructively– those inner parts that are undetectable to the naked eye. Thus, X-ray testing is used to determine if a test object deviates from a given set of specifications. Typical applications are analysis of food products, screening o...