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Application of Gold Nanoparticles in Food Safety Detection

CHEN Dan-dan, XIN Jia-ying, ZHANG Lan-xuan, ZHANG Shuai, WANG Yan   

  1. 1. Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory for Food Science and Engineering, Harbin University of Commerce, Harbin 150076, China;
    2. State Key Laboratory for Oxo Synthesis and Selective Oxidation, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
  • Online:2014-04-15 Published:2014-04-18

Abstract:

Food safety is an important issue of common concern in the world today. Developing a sensitive, rapid,accurate and economic detection technology is highly desired for food safety. Gold nanoparticles have a huge potential forapplications in this respect. In this paper, the properties of gold nanoparticles are described briefly, and the recent progress inits application to food safety detection is reviewed.

Key words: food safety, gold nanoparticles, properties, preparation, application, detection