May 24, 2022
Wageningen University has published an online magazine called with a description of FoodSmartphone:
European research collaborations - How Wageningen University & Research makes a difference in policy
with European research projects. The link to the FoodSmarphone subject is: FoodSmartphone -
Test your own food with your smartphone
https://magazines.wur.nl/european-research-en/foodsmartphone/
April 21, 2022
Georgina Ross (ESR1, WFSR) received the Kolthoff award during EuroFAST2022.
The Kolthoff award is the prize of the The Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (KNCV) for the best dissertation in analytical chemistry of the past two years.
After she received her award, Gina has given a key note lecture at EuroFAST2022 titled: "From sample to smartphone: consumer-operable analytical devices for multiplex allergen detection".
December 20, 2021
Georgina Ross (ESR1, WFSR) introduces a test to check food for allergens with the smartphone.
(video)
December 7, 2021
The ninth FoodSmatphone E-newsletter informs about project activities. (pdf)
13 September 2021
Prof. Michel Nielen has given an interview about the FoodSmartphone project. The highlights of the project are available on the
CORDIS website
(more).
12 August 2021
Prof. Michel Nielen, the FoodSmartphone project coordinator answers the question about the FoodSmartphone project in The Analyst Magazine
(more),
(pdf).
24 May 2021
A story to the work of Gina Ross (ESR1) from WFSR within the FoodSmartphone project on portable allergen testing was described in the Foodnavigator paper entitled: Allergen testing with a smartphone: ´The self-test makes chemical analysis accessible to everyone´.
(more).
15 May 2021
Gina Ross (ESR1) from WFSR introduced her research within the FoodSmartphone project in national newspaper “De Volkskrant”
(more).
1 May 2021
Gina Ross (ESR1) from WFSR introduced her test for peanuts allergen testing in local magazine “Allergisch voor pinda’s? Gina bedacht een simpele zelftest”, Omroep Gelderland
(more).
20 April 2021
Prof. Michel Nielen, the FoodSmartphone project coordinator, moderated the session “Food for Thought Lab Testing – Understanding What and Why at New Food/ Food Integrity conference
(more).
13 April 2021
G. Ross, M. van der Voort & R. van Gorcom from WFSR introduced the FoodSmartphone project within the interview in the national radio, “BNR Radio:
De toekomst van voedselveiligheid in Nederland”. (G. Ross after minutes 23:00)
(more).
11 March 2021
Gina Ross (ESR1) from WFSR, “From sample to smartphone”, news item and press release on occasion of PhD defence
(more).
11 February 2021
Prof. Michel Nielen, the FoodSmartphone project coordinator “Highlights from the FoodSmartphone project”, news item on the European Federation of Food Science and Technology (EFFoST)
(more).
15 January 2021
Gina Ross (ESR1) from WFSR introduced the results of her research within the FoodSmartphone project in two presentations “Towards biosensing and diagnostics on your
smartphone” and “Unravelling the Hook effect in sandwich lateral flow immunoassays” on occasion of the ASTP National BSc Talent program course at WFSR.
January 2021
Aris Tsagkaris (ESR6) from the VSCHT introduced smartphone-based assay can screen for neurotoxic organophosphate and carbamate pesticides in fruits and vegetables
(video).
December 2020
Safiye Jafari (ESR 11) from CSEM introduced her research within the FoodSmarthone project, the presentation entitled On-site food safety testing with a smartphone,
to the next generation, at the secondary school.
December 15, 2020
The eighth FoodSmatphone E-newsletter informs about project activities. (pdf)
November 26, 2020
Georgina Ross (ESR1), Wageningen Food Safety Research (WSFR), The Netherlands presented her research on occasion od Virtual Open Day Smart Tech for Food #ST4F.
Video demonstration of a consumer-operable, prototype immunosensor for multiplex food allergen detection. The system allows for total solid sample preparation including homogenisation, liquid extraction and filtration, and connects with a 3D-printed unibody lab on a chip (ULOC) device for dilution of concentrated samples into the appropriate assay dynamic working range. The ULOC enables on-chip bioreagent storage, pipette free sample dilution and combined with a lateral flow immunoassay (LFIA) allows for detection of hazelnut and peanut allergens with a smartphone-based readout (video).
November 26, 2020
Jordi Nelis (ESR3), Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), United Kingdom presented his research on occasion od Virtual Open Day Smart Tech for Food #ST4F.
In this video I explain how to turn a smartphone into an analytical device to detect food contaminants. Two distinct systems are shown. In the first system the smartphone camera is used to perform a colorimetric test. In the second system an electrochemical approach is shown. Both methods can be used for on-site contaminant detection (video).
November 26, 2020
Javier Lou Franco (ESR4), Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), United Kingdom presented his research on occasion od Virtual Open Day Smart Tech for Food #ST4F.
Mycobacterium bovis is a foodborne pathogen that can infect cattle and be transmitted to humans by consumption of raw milk products obtained from infected cows. It causes bovine tuberculosis in humans, therefore there is an urgent need for developing portable and user-friendly sensors to detect its presence. A smartphone-based colourimetric assay has been developed using the peroxidase-like activity of gold nanostars. The assay has a limit of detection of 7,200 cfu/ml without any amplification step, showing potential for miniaturisation and automatization to be used in situ (video)
November 26, 2020
Yunfeng Zhao (ESR5), Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), United Kingdom presented his research on occasion od Virtual Open Day Smart Tech for Food #ST4F.
This video summarises and demonstrates the major outputs made by ESR5 of FoodSmartphone project. These outputs include the imaging and software prototypes developed within the project. These tools help with analytical data generation, interpretation, and storage for on-site food safety and quality analysis using a smartphone (video).
November 26, 2020
Aristeidis Tsagkaris (ESR6), University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague (UCT Prague), Czech Republic presented his research on occasion od Virtual Open Day Smart Tech for Food #ST4F.
The developed smartphone-based assay can screen for neurotoxic organophosphate and carbamate pesticides in fruits and vegetables. Analysis can be performed on-site since the paper assay is embedded into a lab-on-a-chip prototype device able to inject samples and necessary reagents on-demand. This cost-efficient (0.30 euro/per device) and rapid (results within 10 minutes) method can be used as a complementary screening tool to assist instrumental analysis by reducing the samples arriving in the lab (video).
November 26, 2020
Klaudia Kopper (ESR8), Spanish council for scientific research (CSIC), Spain presented her research on occasion od Virtual Open Day Smart Tech for Food #ST4F.
This demo video shows the operation of a multiplexed smartphone-connected electrochemical immunosensor which is used for the detection of pesticides in wheat samples. For the development of the sensor antibodies were used as biorecognition elements, screen printed electrodes as electrochemical transducers and a smartphone for the data readout and analysis. In the second half of the video a step by step demonstration can be seen about the entire process from sample treatment to data analysis (video).
November 26, 2020
Safiye Jafari (ESR11), Centre suisse d'électronique et de microtechnique – CSEM, Switzerland presented her research on occasion od Virtual Open Day Smart Tech for Food #ST4F.
Aflatoxin are dangerous food contaminants, associated with development of liver cancer. Therefore, it is crucial to test your food for aflatoxin. The food safety testing system requires sampling, transferring the samples to an equipped laboratory. So testing is expensive and time-consuming. In this Video, you will learn how you could do aflatoxin testing using your smartphone. This test is a portable, cheap, and disposable way to screen your food for aflatoxin contamination on-site. (video)
November 26, 2020
Ariadni Geballa Koukoula (ESR12), Wageningen Food Safety Research (WSFR), The Netherlands presented her research on occasion od Virtual Open Day Smart Tech for Food #ST4F.
The progress on the topic of analysis of lateral flow immunoassays with direct mass spectrometric analysis is presented, as described in the respective recent publication. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00216-020-02890-4.
Followed the smartphone detection of mycotoxin, the same sample extract is used to develop an ID-LFIA, which can then be analyzed in 3 different ways with Mass Spectrometry. (video)
November 26, 2020
Julian Guercetti (ESR17), CSEM, Spain presented his research on occasion od Virtual Open Day Smart Tech for Food #ST4F.
I’m working on the development of a multiplexed portable platform based on Surface Plasmon Resonance to detect antibiotic residues in milk. Making use of DNA-directed immobilization strategies and acquiring the signal with a Smartphone. This project is being carried out in collaboration with our partners at Linkoping University and aims to offer an affordable and easy-to-use solution enabling food safety controls at the dairy farm level.
The DEMO consists in a step-by-step protocol to proceed to measure an unknown milk sample with a smartphone in real time (video).
November 26, 2020
Chi Xiao (ESR19), Liu Sweden presented her research on occasion od Virtual Open Day Smart Tech for Food #ST4F. (video)
A novel smartphone-based SPR device for food detection is introduced in this video. (video)
September 24, 2020
A. Tsagkaris awarded by AOAC International with the AOAC/Eurofins “Testing for life” student award had an online presentation entitled “A lab-on-a-chip analytical platform with smartphone readout for acetylcholinesterase inhibitors screening”. The presentation was part of the 134th Annual Meeting of AOAC INTERNATIONAL.
September 2020
A. Tsagkaris demonstrated the developed smartphone-based assay during the online Science Festival (more)
August 22, 2020
Michel Nielen, FoodSmartphone project coordinator, was interviewed about an EU-funded project to develop smartphone-based food screening capabilities. (more)
20 June 2020
Julian Guercetti (ESR 17) from CSIC introduced his research and the FoodSmartphone Project at a Secondary School in a scientific symposium (On-line), “Biotechnology in your Smartphone” motivating the next generation in Argentina for research!
June 24, 2020
The seventh FoodSmatphone E-newsletter informs about project activities. You can register to receive it automatically.
February 28, 2020
The article about our research on smartphone-based pesticides analysis was published in the most popular Czech newspaper MF DNES. (more)
February 24, 2020
Ariadni Geballa-Koukoula (ESR 12) from WFSR showed her project within the presentation, "Mycotoxin detection in food using smartphones" at her previous primary school class, Athens, Greece motivating the next generation for research!
February 11, 2020
Prof. Hajšlová spoke about food safety and current research in pesticide residue analysis under the H2020 project FoodSmartphone in the report in TV talk show Focus Václava Moravce - The chemical era. (more)
February 6, 2020
Food Analysis (food-analysis.org) spoke with Georgina Ross from Wageningen Food Safety Research (WFSR) about her work looking into the application of smartphone technology to the food analysis field. (more)
January 24-25, 2020
Aris Tsagkaris (ESR 6) demonstrates the FoodSmartphone projects and 3D-printing of laboratory devices for his assay to high school students visiting VSCHT during VSCHT Open Days.
January 18, 2020
Gina Ross (ESR 1) presented her research (presentation title: Smartphone based diagnostics) on aoccasion of -ASTP National BSc Talent program course in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
December 18, 2019
Yunfeng Zhao (ESR 5) showed his project during the presentation entitled "Can we do food testing using our smartphones?" at his old high school in Zhejian, China, motivating the next generation for research!
December 10, 2019
The sixth FoodSmatphone E-newsletter informs about project activities. You can register to receive it automatically.
November 6-7, 2019
FoodSmartphone experts presented the progress in their research at the 2nd FoodSmartphone Open days, RAFA2019.
September 27, 2019
Julian Guercetti (ESR 17 from CSIC) presented his reaseaech at Cosmo Caixa Museum in the “Researchers' Night” in Barcelona, SPlain.The title of his talk was "Hunting antibiotics with the smartphone".
September - October 2019
Michel Nielen the projekct coordinator introduced the FoodSmartphone project within the interview for science magazin, M.W.F. Nielen, C.E. Elliott, H-G Janssen, "Today´s menu: sound science", The Analytical Scientist, 80 (2019) 32-37, (more) and M.W.F. Nielen, "Citizen science and food safety", The Analytical Scientist, 81 (2019) 15-16 (more)
September 4, 2019
Aris Tsagkaris (ESR 6 from VSCHT), presented the FoodSmartphone concept for pesticide residues testing in food on occasion of Festival of Science in Prague 2019.
July 31, 2019
Ariadni Geballa Koukoula (ESR 12) from Wageningen Food Safety Research (NL) introduces a vlog on Analysis through FoodSmartphone - mass spectrometry coupling. More information Here.
July 5, 2019
G. Ross (ESR 1) presented the research project "Testing allergens with your smartphone" in London UK at her old primary school, motivating the next generation for research!, primary school class (children 8-11).
July 1, 2019
Gina Ross (ESR 1) introduces a vlog on Consumer Allergen Testing. More information Here.
June 27, 2019
The fifth FoodSmatphone E-newsletter informs about project activities. You can register to receive it automatically.
April 19, 2019
Aris Tsagkaris (ESR6) from UCT Prague showed his project within the presentation “Developing smartphone-based analyzers for food contaminants: The case of carbamate pesticides” at his previous university in Greece to the students of the Chemistry Department in the University of Athens, motivating the next generation for research!
March 27, 2019
Prof. Daniel Filippini presented the FoodSmarphone project and the output of the LIU contribution in the context of the Department of Physic, Chemistry and Biology (IFM) Open House day, where Bachelor and Masters students are presented with courses and current research activities at the department.
March 17, 2019
Prof. Jana Hajslova and Aris Tsagkaris demonstrated the rapid and simple screening test for selected pesticide residues (organophosphates and carbamates) detection which is being developed within the Horizon 2020 project FoodSmartphone. You can see the news report on TV PRIMA here or the stream on facebook here.
February 27, 2019
Safiye Jafari (ESR 11) from CSEM published the article about the FoodSmartphone in the local newspaper.“Bündner Woche”, see (https://reader.somedia.ch/epaper/pdf/blaettern.php?publication=wzbw&date=2019-02-27)
February 4-8, 2019
Georgina Ross (ESR 1), Aris Tsagkaris (ESR 6) and Ariadni Geballa Koukoula (ESR 12) presented their posters on occasion of the Advanced Food Analysis (AFA) course.
December 17, 2018
Aris Tsagkaris (ESR6) showed his project at his old high school in Greece, motivating the next generation for research! After the presentation “Doing a PhD: an alternative working experience”, he had a simplified demonstration of the smartphone assay for pescides.
December 17, 2018
The fourth FoodSmatphone E-newsletter informs about project activities. You can register to receive it automatically.
December 5, 2018
Davide Migliorelli talked to Safiye Jafari about her adventure of moving from Iran to Switzerland, and her work on smartphone based biosensing. in DURABEL CSEM’s internal newsletter about sustainability, No 12. (pdf)
November 5-7, 2018
ESRs from WRSR - Georgina Ross presented at the 12th conference in the Rapid Methods Europe in Amsterdam the conference posters on the up to date results - Rapid antibody selection using surface plasmon resonance for high-speed hazelnut lateral flow prototypes.
October 17, 2018
Andriy Kuzmyn (ESR 10) present his FoodSmartphone project and smartphone-based biosensors at ????? ?51 ??. ????? ?????? at his old high school in Ukraine, motivating the next generation for research! 2
October 18, 2018
ESRs from WFSR, CSEM and QUB presented at the Swiss Point-of-Care Diagnostics conference posters on the up to date results: Georgina Ross - High-speed Hazelnut Lateral Flow Immunoassay Prototyping from Surface Plasmon Resonance, Safiye Jafari - Development of an aptamer based biosensor for detection of aflatoxins in food on your smartphone and Joost Nelis -Evaluation of the electrochemical signal enhancement for domoic acid detection in shellfish using various nanomaterials.
September 17, 2018
Safiye Jafari (ESR 11) inform about his blog in DURABEL CSEM’s internal newsletter about sustainability, No 11. (pdf)
September 13, 2018
A. Tsagkaris presented his up to date results “Organophosphorus and carbamate insecticides screening: from microplate assays towards the on-site smartphone based detection” in the annual meeting of the Food Analysis and Nutrition Department (VSCHT)
September 5, 2018
VSCHT team introduces the FoodSmartphone concept for pesticide residues testing in food on occasion of Festival of Science in Prague.
August 17, 2018
Professor Michel Nielen discusses the creation of the FoodSmartphone, a smartphone-integrated food testing platform, see video presentation at www. Selectscience.net
August 17, 2018
Professor Michel Nielen discusses the future of smartphone-based food safety testing in video interview at www. Selectscience.net
June 12-15 2018
ESRs from QUB, Jordi Nelis and Javier Lou Franco presented at the Biosensor 2019 conference conference the posters “Revealing biosensor capabilities through an open source stakeholder interaction platform equipped with a user friendly decision tree” and “Tuneable Plasmonic and Catalytic Gold Nanostars for Surface-Enhanced Resonance Raman Scattering (SERRS): Synthesis, Characterization and Optimization”.
July 2, 2018
The third FoodSmatphone E-newsletter informs about project activities. You can register to receive it automatically.
May 28 - 31, 2018
ESR from QUB, Jordi Nelis presented the poster “Biosensors into the limelight: Towards a user-friendly interface with The Bio End user Sensor Tree" at the Belfast Summit on Global Food Integrity Promotional (ASSET2018).
May 22 - 25, 2018
ESR from UCT Prague, Aristeidis Tsagkaris presented the poster titled the potential of smartphones as portable detectors in AChE inhibitors screening at 12th European Pesticide Residue Workshop in Munich.
February 13-14, 2018
ESR from QUB Yunfeng Zhao presented FoodSmartphone concept and the progresses within the project at the Food Integrity Workshop.
December 18, 2017
The second FoodSmatphone E-newsletter informs about project activities. You can register to receive it automatically.
December 16, 2017
FoodSmartphone researchers Georgina Ross and Vincent O´Brien are presenting their Horizon 2020 Marie Curie ETN projects at WFSR Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands.
More information Here
December 16, 2017
Javier Lou Franco (ESR 4), presenting his project Plasmonic FoodSmartphone assays for food spoilage at Queens University Belfast, United Kingdom.
More information Here
December 16, 2017
Klaudia Kopper FoodSmartphone ESR8 at CSIC, Barcelona, Spain introduces her PhD project Electrode Arrays For FoodSmartphones
More information Here
December 16, 2017
FoodSmartphone researcher Andriy Kuzmyn. Introduces his project Nano sample preparation for FoodSmartphones at Aquamarijn, The Netherlands.
More information Here
December 12, 2017
FoodSmartphone ESR9, Sahl Sadeghi, presenting his exciting Horizon 2020 Marie Curie ETN project at Linkoping University in Sweden. More information Here
December 9, 2017
FoodSmartphone researcher Aristeidis Tsagkaris at University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Czech Republic introduces his PhD project on Enzymatic FoodSmartphone Assays For AChE Inhibitors. More information Here
November 28, 2017
FoodSmartphone researcher Safiye Jafari at CSEM, Switzerland, introduces her PhD project on Aptamer-based ligand binding assays for aflatoxins. More information Here
November 8-9, 2017, Prague, CZ
Meet FoodSmartphone in the RAFA Smart Lab:
November 1, 2017
Short introduction to the project FoodSmartphone by Prof. Michel Nielen from Wageningen University & Research, NL.
More information Here
July 7, 2017
The newly established FoodSmatphone E-newsletter informs about project activities. You can register to receive it automatically.
July 1, 2017
11 Early Stage Researchers will start to post Blogs about their experience as a young researcher in an interesting project. By the end of week 28 the first post will be online and from then a weekly update will be posted!
June 15, 2017
The FoodSmartPhone poster highlighting the individual ESR projects, Traning and Dissemination programs (pdf).
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 720325.
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