IMAGE PROCESSING METHODS FOR FOOD INSPECTION Onur Yorulmaz M.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Enis Çetin January 2012 With the advances in computer technology, signal processing techniques are widely applied to many food safety applications. In this thesis, new methods are developed to solve two food safety problems using image processing techniques. First prob...

The purpose of this study was to elaborate a checklist with an inspection scoring system at national level in order to assess compliance with sanitary hygiene requirements of food services. The inspection scoring system was elaborated taking into account the guidelines drawn up by NYC Department of Food Safety and Mental Hygiene. Moreover the checklist was used simultaneously with the standard ...

When food inspectors pay educational visits to food service establishments, the goal is prevention. For that reason, such visits form a valuable component in local-government programs to improve food safety. The efficacy of educational programs can be measurably improved by the application of behavioral-change theory. The study reported here was conducted with the cooperation of Key Arena Sport...

Perfect quality control of food becomes more and more a matter of course. Foreign materialslike pieces of rocks, insects, plastics, carton etc. have to be identified and sorted out. For many years, near-infrared spectroscopy has been a widely-used analytical offline method for quality inspection for small samples in the food and agriculture industry. Up to now, high-speed automatic sorting mach...

Restaurants in the United States are regularly inspected by health departments, but few data exist regarding the effect of restaurant inspections on food safety. We examined statewide inspection records from January 1993 through April 2000. Data were available from 167,574 restaurant inspections. From 1993 to 2000, mean scores rose steadily from 80.2 to 83.8. Mean inspection scores of individua...

With the increasingly demanding international regulations for import and export of food products, as well as with the increased awareness and sophistication of consumers, the food industry needs accurate, fast and efficient quality inspection means. Each producer seeks to ensure that their products satisfy all consumer's expectations and that the appropriate quality level of each product is off...

This study was carried out in order to investigate the presences of Bacillus cereus and its enterotoxigenic genes in infant foods in Isfahan, Iran. Overall 200 infant foods with various based were collected and immediately transferred to the laboratory. All samples were culture and the genomic DNA was extracted from colonies with typical characters of Bacillus cereus. The presences of enterotox...

This paper overviews the latest trends of millimeterwave (MMW) imaging technologies, focusing mainly on applications of and technical parameter variations for security surveillance and nondestructive inspections (NDI). We introduce a smart NDI tool using active W-band imaging, which is capable of detecting hidden surface cracks in concrete structures.

Food is essential for nourishment and sustenance of life. The food sorting system gives us various information like color, shape, size, defect etc. There are two way for inspecting food products, first is the external food inspection while other is the internal food inspection. External inspection is done through image processing while internal measurement is done by sensors which can calculate...