Title :
Comparative investigation of detection of melamine in food powders
Author :
Ung, Benjamin S Y ; Fischer, Bernd M. ; Ng, Brian H W ; Abbo, Derek
Author_Institution :
Centre of Biomed. Eng., Univ. of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Abstract :
Recently, there have been numerous food scares particularly with the production of milk powders for infants. This has been caused by the addition of excess melamine to increase the tested protein count of a powder. In this paper we investigate the potential of THz-TDS for use in food quality control and compare this technique to other established techniques.
Keywords :
food products; food safety; health hazards; powders; proteins; quality control; food powders; food quality control; infants milk powders; melamine detection; protein count; Australia; Biomedical engineering; Dairy products; Nitrogen; Pediatrics; Polyethylene; Positron emission tomography; Powders; Temperature measurement; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, 2009. IRMMW-THz 2009. 34th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Busan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5416-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5417-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICIMW.2009.5324952
