Biosensors and Nanosensors for Determination of Fruit Safety

The increasing demand for food and the pursuit of maximum crop yield have significantly impacted various agriculturalAgricultural practices. These effects are evident in the widespread use of fertilizersFertilizer, pesticidesPesticide, and chemicals, often without due consideration of safe preharvestPreharvest intervals. While it’s imperative to boost productivityProductivity and enhance fruit qualityFruit quality, it's equally crucial to ensure that these efforts don’t compromise the safety of consuming the fruitsFruit, whether in their natural state or as processed productsProduct. The preservation of fruit qualityFruit quality is of utmost importance, especially in lightLight of the imperative to minimize food wastage and prevent fruitFruit deterioration. Consequently, assessing the lasting impacts of potential hazardsHazard in fruitsFruit, such as pathogensPathogen, heavy metalsHeavy metal, and pesticidesPesticide, has become a crucial task. Achieving and monitoringMonitoring high quality can be effectively facilitated through remote sensingRemote sensing techniques. In this regard, biosensorsBiosensor and nanosensorsNanosensors prove to be more dependable and sensitive in biosensing procedures compared to their traditional counterparts, which suffer from various detectionDetection limitations. This chapter explores the contemporary perspectives on biosensorsBiosensor and nanosensorsNanosensors in ensuring fruitFruit safety. The real-time monitoringReal-time monitoring of fruit qualityFruit quality has revolutionized tasks like rapid screening, fraud detectionDetection, and supply chain tracking. This not only enhances fruit qualityFruit quality but also aligns with consumer expectations. The chapter presents a complete review of the use of nanotechnologyNanotechnology-based biosensorsBiosensor in maintaining fruit qualityFruit quality. It also discusses continuing research, technical breakthroughs, regulatory guidelines, future difficulties, and the quality preservation perspective.