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The present study was aimed at developing a low-cost but rapid technique for qualitative and quantitative detection of beef adulterated with pork. An electronic nose based on colorimetric sensors was proposed. The fresh beef rib steaks and streaky pork were purchased and used from the local agricultural market in Suzhou, China. The minced beef was mixed with pork ranging at levels from 0%~100% by weight at increments of 20%. Protein, fat, and ash content were measured for validation of the differences between the pure beef and pork used in basic chemical compositions. Fisher linear discriminant analysis (Fisher LDA) and extreme learning machine (ELM) were utilized comparatively for identification of the ground pure beef, beef–pork mixtures, and pure pork. Back propagation-artificial neural network (BP-ANN) models were built for prediction of the adulteration levels. Results revealed that the ELM model built was superior to the Fisher LDA model with higher identification rates of 91.27% and 87.5% in the training and prediction sets respectively. Regarding the adulteration level prediction, the correlation coefficient and the root mean square error were 0.85 and 0.147 respectively in the prediction set of the BP-ANN model built. This suggests, from all the results, that the low-cost electronic nose based on colorimetric sensors coupled with chemometrics has a great potential in rapid detection of beef adulterated with pork.

The purpose of this present study was to develop a rapid and effective approach for identification of red wines that differ in geographical origins, brands, and grape varieties, a multi‐sensor fusion technology based on a novel cost‐effective electronic nose (E‐nose) and a voltammetric electronic tongue (E‐tongue) was proposed. The E‐nose sensors was created using porphyrins or metalloporphyrins, pH indicators and Nile red printed on a C2 reverse phase silica gel plate. The voltammetric E‐Tongue with six metallic working electrodes, namely platinum, gold, palladium, tungsten, titanium, and silver was employed to sense the taste of red wines. Principal component analysis (PCA) was utilized for dimensionality reduction and decorrelation of the raw sensors datasets. The fusion models derived from extreme learning machine (ELM) were built with PCA scores of E‐nose and tongue as the inputs. Results showed superior performance (100% recognition rate) using combination of odor and taste sensors than individual artificial systems. The results suggested that fusion of the novel cost‐effective E‐nose created and voltammetric E‐tongue coupled with ELM has a powerful potential in rapid quality evaluation of red wine.

This article proposes and describes a data fusion detection method based on computer vision and spectroscopic techniques for fish freshness classification.

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This work measures the total polyphenols content in cocoa beans by using a novel approach of integrating near infrared spectroscopy and electronic tongue, 110 samples of cocoa beans were analysed.