Abstract
Aflatoxin contamination poses a significant risk to all nuts, including pistachios, during harvest, storage, and processing. Dietary exposure to aflatoxins can lead to severe toxic and carcinogenic effects in humans. To safeguard human and animal health, aflatoxin legislation sets maximum permissible levels for aflatoxins in food products, including pistachios. Consequently, imported pistachios undergo rigorous aflatoxin contamination testing. Traditional methods for measuring aflatoxin levels, such as High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), HPLC with Mass Spectrometry, and Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA), although precise, are destructive, costly, and time-consuming. This paper investigates the application of emerging technologies, including Hyperspectral Imaging, Chromatographic Test Strips, Luminescent Metal-Organic Frameworks, spectroscopic methods, machine vision, and advanced artificial intelligence models, to develop a non-intrusive, real-time system for aflatoxin detection in pistachio nuts. Additionally, it outlines a comprehensive strategy to protect public health, mitigate economic losses estimated at \$932 million annually, and sustain the pistachio industry.
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Divisions: | School of Built Environment, Engineering and Computing |
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Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1109/MECO66322.2025.11049245 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Publisher: | IEEE Xplore |
Additional Information: | © 2025 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Aflatoxin contamination; Hyperspectral imaging; AI; pistachio nuts |
SWORD Depositor: | Symplectic |
Depositing User (symplectic) | Deposited by Sheikh Akbari, Akbar |
Date Deposited: | 01 Jul 2025 08:43 |
Last Modified: | 01 Jul 2025 23:10 |
Event Title: | Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO) |
Event Dates: | 10-14 Jun 2025 |
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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