Strategic role of nanobiosensor in food: Benefits and bottlenecks

Nanotechnology has recently become one of the most exciting forefront fields in biosensors fabrication. Nanotechnology has been changing the area of biosensor for many kinds of fields as food. Nanobiosensor, an integration of molecular engineering, physical sciences, chemistry, biology and biotechnology, holds the possibility of manipulating and detecting molecules and atoms using nano-devices/machines, which have the potential for a wide range of both domestic and industrial applications. The role of nanobiosensors in food analysis and detection of chemical and biological compounds in food is an interesting and important area. Biosensors permit the detection of a wide spectrum of analyte in complex sample matrices and have denoted great promise in areas like food analysis. There has been a steadily growing use of biosensor technology for the detection of food contaminants such as food dyes, processing contaminants, veterinary drugs, marine toxins and mycotoxins. On the other hand, there are both some benefits and bottlenecks of nanobiosensors in food fields. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015