Advances in Microfluidics Techniques for Rapid Detection of Pesticide Residues in Food

Abstract

Food safety is a significant issue that affects people worldwide and is tied to their lives and health. The issue of pesticide residues in food is just one of many issues related to food safety, which leave residues in crops and are transferred through the food chain to human consumption. Foods contaminated with pesticide residues pose a serious risk to human health, including carcinogenicity, neurotoxicity, and endocrine disruption. Although traditional methods, including gas chromatography, high-performance liquid chromatography, chromatography, and mass spectrometry, can be used to achieve a quantitative analysis of pesticide residues, the disadvantages of these techniques, such as being time-consuming and costly and requiring specialist staff, limit their application. Therefore, there is a need to develop rapid, effective, and sensitive equipment for the quantitative analysis of pesticide residues in food. Microfluidics is rapidly emerging in a number of fields due to its outstanding strengths. This paper summarizes the application of microfluidic techniques to pyrethroid, carbamate, organochlorine, and organophosphate pesticides, as well as to commercial products. Meanwhile, the study also outlines the development of microfluidics in combination with 3D printing technology and nanomaterials for detecting pesticide residues in food.

Preparation and Regulation of Natural Amphiphilic Zein Nanoparticles by Microfluidic Technology

“…With the rapid development of nanotechnology, microfluidic technology, as a precision and efficient micro and nano scale processing method, has shown unique advantages in the design and preparation of nanomaterials [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ]. By precisely manipulating the fluid flow, mixing and reaction conditions in microfluidic channels at the micron to nanometer level, microfluidic technology achieves a high degree of control over the morphology, size, surface properties and other microscopic characteristics of nanoparticles, which greatly promotes the wide application of functional nanoparticles in biomedicine, catalysis, sensing and environmental remediation [ 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 ].…”