Photonics plays an important and growing role in many food applications, from diagnosis and sensing of contamination, ripening, origin and quality assessment in various phases of food production.
This one-day hands-on training course provides industries, especially those developing new products or addressing an application need, with an overview of important portable photonic-based food devices and how they can be deployed in industrial environments.
The course will focus on three approaches, applied to different use cases; 1) Fluorescence/Visible based assessment of saffron and EVO oil authenticity; 2) NIR spectroscopy for rapid assessment of protein content in intact wheat grains; 3) Hyperspectral imaging applications for raw material sorting. Course attendees will learn how these prototypes and devices are selected for specific tasks of interest. They will also learn how new early-stage prototypes can be designed or adapted to fit new industrial needs.
