Biosensor: an Implement for Food Safety

Food safety is a global health challenge and the foodborne diseases take a major crisis on human health. Therefore, detection of pathogens in food is necessary in order to prevent and for the for the recognition of problems related to health and safety. Obviously, unfavorable detection methods may take up to several hours or even a few days to yield an answer. Among these methods, new technologies like biosensors show potential approaches, which are able to detect and determine pathogens accurately, rapidly and reliably. This paper provides an overview and introduction of biosensors and, their classification. Application of biosensors in food industry is also described.