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1.1.2.2 High Throughput Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)<br />

High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) is a chromatographic technique<br />

used to separate a mixture of chemical compounds. It is mainly used in biochemistry<br />

and analytical chemistry to identify, quantify as well as purify the individual<br />

components in a mixture. The HPLC instrument consists of a solvent reservoir,<br />

transfer line with frit, high-pressure pump, sample injection device, column, detector,<br />

and data acquisition, usually together with data evaluation (Meyer, 2013)<br />

1.1.2.3 Electronic Nose (e-nose)<br />

An electronic nose (e-nose) is an instrument applied for the rapid non-destructive<br />

detection and analysis of microbial volatile compounds. The electronic noses attempt<br />

to mimic the human organoleptic olfactory interpretation (Persuad and Dodd, 1982).<br />

The instrument consists of an array of chemical gas sensors, which are capable of<br />

detecting and recognising simplex or complex odours.<br />

Electronic noses have shown great promise in the field of food analysis as a means of<br />

evaluating freshness and investigating shelf life. E-noses have become increasingly<br />

popular due to the fact that they resemble human sensory evaluation, but also since<br />

they are rapid, low-cost non-destructive techniques. Even so, the repeatability with<br />

electronic noses has been questioned since they present instabilities due to severe<br />

instrumental drift (Ellis and Goodacre, 2001).<br />

1.1.2.4 Raman Spectroscopy<br />

Raman spectroscopy is also a non-destructive method that can be considered to be<br />

complementary to FTIR spectroscopy. Both Raman and FTIR are powerful metabolic<br />

fingerprinting methods as they reflect accurately the phenotype of a sample, including<br />

changes to its metabolism (Nicolaou et al., 2011). The major advantage of Raman<br />

spectroscopy over FTIR is the fact that the contribution from water is very small and<br />

thus can be used directly on food without recourse to ATR (Argyri et al., 2013).<br />

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