Biomedical Engineering Reference
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Higher quality foods due to better selection, testing, handling, grading and
processing
Lower prices due to quick nondestructive tests in harvesting, selection and grading of
raw materials as well as testing finished products like for example during canning
operations
Increase in food safety due to, for example, the ability to detect dangerous salmonella in
eggs from the change in physical properties detected by quick and accurate vibration
based methods (Sinha et al., 1992) or infestation in fruits.
Better design of food packaging, handling and transportation.
Better tools to monitor the rheological properties of raw materials, e.g. during cooking
and drying of cereal (Gonzalez et al., 2010)
More interdisciplinary research combining engineering and food and biological
sciences.
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