Quality Control in the Beverage Industry. Volume 17: The Science of Beverages

Table of Contents

1. Quality Control in Beverage Production: An Overview 2. Quality Control of Beverages for Health Safety: Starting from Laboratory to the Point-of-Care Detection Techniques 3. Progress in Beverages Authentication by the Application of Analytical Techniques and Chemometrics 4. Determination of Metal Contaminants in Beverages Using Solid Phase Extraction-Based Preconcentration and Subsequent Determination Spectro-Analytical Techniques 5. Fluorescence and Chemometrics in Analysis and Quality Assessment of Beverages 6. Evaluation of Metal Concentration in Herbal Tea Beverages by ICP-MS and Chemometrics Techniques 7. Voltammetric Analysis of Platinum Group Elements (PGEs) in Beverages 8. Multivariate Classification Techniques to Authenticate Commercial Beverages 9. Quality Tools in Wine Traceability and Authenticity 10. Quality Monitoring and Authenticity Assessment of Wines: Analytical and Chemometric Methods 11. Qualitative and Quantitative Chemical Composition of Wine 12. Promising Bioanalytical Approaches to Wine Analysis 13. Pomegranate Juice (Punica Granatum L.): Recent Studies on its Bioactivities 14. Enzymatic Activities and Fermentation Products of Lactic Acid and Bacteria from Fruits and Fermented Beverages: Incidence on Food Quality 15. Pesticide Residues in Beverages

Authors

Alexandru Grumezescu Assistant Professor, Department of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science and Faculty of Medical Engineering, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania. Alexandru Mihai Grumezescu is a lecturer in the Department of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, at the Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania. He is an experienced researcher and published editor in the field of nano and biostructures. He is the editor-in-chief of two international open access journals: Biointerface Research in Applied Chemistry, Letters and Applied NanoBioScience. Dr. Grumezescu has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers, authored nine books, and has served as an editor for more than 50 scholarly books. Alina Maria Holban Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, Romania. Alina-Maria Holban is a lecturer in Microbiology and Immunology, at the Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest; and associate researcher at the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania. Her primary area of research is the development of bionanomaterials with antimicrobial applications. Dr. Holban has published 75 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 42 conference/symposia proceedings, and has edited more than 21 edited books.