“…Such classifications include levels of purity of pharmaceutical samples (Amigo and Ravn, 2009;Gowen et al, 2008Gowen et al, , 2011Ravn et al, 2008), and food products (Huang et al, 2014;Lefcout and Kim, 2006;Park et al, 2006;Vargas et al, 2005). 2) To classify food objects with or without particular defects (Gaston et al, 2011;Heitschmidt et al, 2004;Nansen et al, 2014;Singh et al, 2009Singh et al, , 2010Wang et al, 2010Wang et al, , 2011Zhang et al, 2015) or food into specific classes Blasco et al, 2003;Cubero et al, 2011;Kamruzzaman et al, 2012). There are several important and comprehensive reviews of applications of hyperspectral imaging in studies of both food quality and food safety Feng and Sun, 2012;Huang et al, 2014).…”