Microbiological safety assessment in food samples is often a cumbersome and time consuming task that has to be done in a regular basis in most food manufacturing facilities. Standard microbiological techniques for evaluating critical levels of bacteria take several days to yield results, thus the food products have to be withheld in the processing factories until the safety inspection is conclu...

Food material shape is often closely related to its quality. Due to the demands of high quality, automated food shape inspection has become an important need for the food industry. Currently, accuracy and speed are two major problems for food shape inspection with computer vision. Therefore, in this study, a fast and accurate computer-vision based feature extraction and classification system wa...

a Microbial Food Safety Research Unit, Eastern Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 600 E. Mermaid Lane, Wyndmoor, PA 19038, United States b U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food Safety Inspection Service, 14th and Independence S.W., Washington, DC 20250, United States c Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln,...

Computer vision is a rapid, economic, consistent and objective inspection technique, which has expanded into many diverse industries. Its speed and accuracy satisfy ever-increasing production and quality requirements, hence aiding in the development of totally automated processes. This non-destructive method of inspection has found applications in the agricultural and food industry, including t...

ments, food-producing companies, the agricultural sector, consumer organizations and four federal departments that share responsibility for food safety, i.e. Health Canada (HC), the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) (Figure ). Part of the responsibility of the AAFC is to develop food-safety programs tha...

On-line carcass inspection of chickens in the United States is currently done using visual (organoleptic) methods. Inspectors from the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) inspect the viscera and carcass and, for older birds, the heads using a sequence of observations and palpations at a postmortem inspection station. The streamlined inspection system (SIS) and the new line speed insp...