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EDITED BY:

• Dr Olalere Olusegun Abayomi (Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia)

• Dr Puranjan Mishra (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)

• Assoc. Prof. Gan Chee-Yuen (Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia)

It is my pleasure to invite you to submit your chapters for this new book entitled 'Food Waste Valorization: Emerging Trends, Techno-economic and Environmental Considerations'. In case you find it feasible to spare time for writing a chapter, it will be very kind of you to submit the chapter title, affiliation, and contact information within the next 10 days so that we will finalize it and freeze the chapters for the book publication. You can also invite your colleagues to join as co-authors. We will contact you with more details after we receive your consent letter. In case you need any clarification(s), you may please contact the undersigned editor. Since we wish the book to be ready in a few months as per the publisher's request and deadlines. We have proposed a list of chapters, and you are at liberty to choose one of the topics or contribute to any other topics as per your convenience.

This book is intended to provide deep insights into the emerging trends in research on food waste valorisation taking into account the techno-economic perspectives which are key matrices to make the process technically feasible, economically viable and environmentally sustainable. In this unique volume, the emphasis will be given to the state-of-the-art advancements and prognosis for the maximum utilization/valorisation of food waste to value-added products. The sections on techno-economic feasibility and life cycle assessment will provide a comprehensive overview and help in identifying the most sustainable options and propose improvements to the currently available technologies. With the contributions from the active and leading experts in this book, it will be an ideal reference book for academic and non-academic readers.

Across the world, up to 40% of food is wasted globally during the food supply chain. This vast percentage comes from food that is either thrown away, decayed, or infested from the time it's grown to the time it's eaten. A lot of waste is made every year because of how food is processed, particularly in the food industry. It has been hard to control, dispose of, and treat these food wastes because of a lot of economic problems. In light of this, efforts have been made to turn food waste into useful products that are too many to name. Though many researchers have documented about how these food wastes can be turned into other value-added products, most of their reports don't go into enough detail to cover all of the different fields of specialisation that are involved in the process. It is important to note that food waste valorisation is an interdisciplinary issue and as such allow different research experts such as agriculturist, engineers, scientist and economists etc. Food supply chains have grown more complicated in recent years as a result of globalization, which has resulted in a wider variety of foods and longer distances between their origin and final destination.In addition, food waste is a major issue with environmental, economic, social, and ethical ramifications. It must be addressed. In the first place, it wastes resources and fills up landfills, and it emits greenhouse gases that contribute to warming the planet and causing it to change its climate. First and foremost, it is a huge undertaking that requires a significant amount of money to produce, store, transport and treat the products. The third way to help fight hunger is to donate usable food that has been thrown out because doing so will help ensure the food security of a growing population while also promoting social equality. Because of this, food waste must be prevented and reduced to increase the supply chain's resource efficiency, make food more readily available, and lessen hunger.

Food wastes are important bio-resources that may be converted into a variety of products such as bio-fertilisers, biodegradable plastics, biodiesel, chemicals, and nutraceuticals. Converting food waste into these items can help to lessen the need for fossil-derived products, which have traditionally led to significant pollution.

As a result, food waste valorisation offers significant economic, social, and environmental advantages, and numerous governments are already pushing food waste valorisation techniques. These initiatives promote the establishment of recycling and reuse in the food industry by completing the loop and repurposing wastes, a strategy that has been endorsed by recent legislation in several industrialised nations. Thus, the book's primary contribution is twofold: it provides precise information on food intake and sustainable practices to reduce food waste, and it discusses options for food waste valorisation. Not only is food waste valorisation advantageous for a food production firm because the economic worth of the material increases, but it is also advantageous since these commodities are often abundant.

PROPOSED CHAPTERS

SECTION 1: FOOD SUSTAINABILITY, WASTAGE, AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

• Chapter 1: Overview of Food Wastes and its Valorisations

• Chapter 2: Food Wastes and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

• Chapter 3: Food Waste Generation and Holistic Management in COVID-19 and Post-Covid Era.

• Chapter 4: Socio-economic Concern, Environmental Impact Assessment and Feasibilities Study of Up-cycled Food Wastes

SECTION 2: FOOD WASTES VALORIZATION INTO VALUE-ADDED PRODUCTS

• Chapter 5: Food Waste to Energy: Techniques for Energy Recovery from Food Waste

• Chapter 6: Bioactive: Extractability of Value-added Nutraceuticals from Food Wastes

• Chapter 7: Soil Enrichment: Food Waste a Potential Boost for Improving Crop Productivity

• Chapter 8: Depolymerizing and Upgrading Food Waste Components into Platform Chemicals

• Chapter 9: Valorisations of Food Wastes in Infrastructural Development and Construction Industries

• Chapter 10: Valorisation of Food-based wastes into Hydrophobic Bio-plastics

• Chapter 11: Sustainable Valorisation of Food Wastes for Animal Feed Fortification

• Chapter 12: Approaches to Isolation and Characterization of Novel Microbes from Food Waste

• Chapter 13: Process Design, Modelling and Technology Integration for Maximizing Efficiency in Food Valorisations

SECTION 3: TECHNO-ECONOMIC AND LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENT IN FOOD WASTE VALORIZATION

• Chapter 14: Analysis of Laws, Policy and Regulatory Challenges Associated and Future Direction with Food Waste Valorisation

• Chapter 15: Business and Financial Models in Food Wastes Valorisations

• Chapter 16: Techno-economic and Life-Cycle Assessment of Food Wastes Valorisation

NOTE:

• Chapter Lenght: ≥10,000 words

• Abstract Submission Due Date: 28 October, 2022

• Submission Due Date for Full Draft: 10th January, 2023

Expression of interest and abstract should be forwarded to any of the email below:

• drolalereolusegun@gmail.com

• puranjanmishra@gmail.com

• cygan@usm.my

Screening Interventions for Inborn Error of Metabolism (IEM) in Selected Asian Countries

Abstract

The establishment of a viable program for newborn screening in the Asian region has suffered unimaginable set-back partly due to several factors such as economic, cultural, and geographical differences. This has mostly become exacerbated partly in developing and developed economies due to a lack of proper awareness. In many parts of the world, the screening of infants for congenital disorders is an important part of neonatal activities with the inherent advantage of minimizing the morbidity and mortality rates in newborns. The recent development of state-of-the-art procedures has therefore made it possible for the newborn screening of a wide range of strange disorders. This review succinctly presented the overview and importance of newborn screening, awareness, spectrometry diagnostic tools and the potential future collaboration among member countries in this region.

Overview

There are markable four generations of newborn screening advancement in the Asian continent. The first era of this development happened in the early 1960s where newborn screening was regarded as an advancement over the conventional public health institution, with pacific Asian countries like Japan, and China, at the forefront [71]. The second generation was in the 1980s in which the countries like China, Taiwan, Singapore, India, and Hong Kong showing a significant increase in newborn screening with congenital hypothyroidism as the prominent inborn error screened for [71]. Also, in the 1990s countries like Korea, Thailand, and the Philippines were at the developing stage and this period marked the third generation of newborn screening in the Asian continent. Moreover, the 4 th generation was in the 2000s which identified countries such as Indonesia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Pakistan at the developmental but insignificant stage of post-natal screening only for congenital hypothyroidism even with no clear policy and limited funding [72]. However, there is limited or no formal newborn screening program with little information available on newborn screening activities in Bhutan, Cambodia, Laos, Brunei, Burma, Lebanon, Nepal, North Korea, East Timor, Indonesia, Pakistan & Papua New Guinea [72]. Presently, some of the nations in this region are just starting screening initiatives for targeted metabolic as well as other congenital anomalies, especially the countries with depressed economies [71]. Maks et al [66] evaluated the current status of expanded newborn screening in Hong Kong China with a special emphasis on the few numbers of incidences and their expanded spectrum which could be used to develop a broad-based program for the local area. The result of their investigation revealed the cases of expanded newborn error of metabolism to be one out of 4122 births which accounts for an infinitesimal 0.00024% incidence from the number of children born. In Malaysia, NBS started in the 1980s with cord-blood testing for G6PD disorder [73]. The Malaysian Ministry of Health established countrywide, step-by-step congenital hypothyroidism (CH) clinical guidelines for all newborns born in public hospitals in 2003 [73]. With the development of auditory and interventional treatments for hearing-impaired infants from the early nineties, some few clinics in the early 2000s adopted healthcare facility newborn hearing testing. Nevertheless, extended NBS (which includes abnormalities of amino acid metabolism, fatty acid oxidation, and organic acid metabolism) is not obligatory and has not yet been implemented into the Malaysian public health system.

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Multi-objective Deng’s grey incidence analysis, orthogonal optimization, and ANN

ABSTRACTS

Due to the inherent multiple response characteristics in many biological and separation processes, parameter optimization and modelling is usually a daunting task. The integration of Deng’s grey incidence model (GRA) and Taguchi optimization (TM) therefore helps in transforming multiple quality characteristics into a single response presented as the grey relational grade (GRG). This was applied to optimize the multiple quality response characteristics in the maceration-assisted extraction of African cucumber leaves. Two responses and five design factors were selected with L16(25 ) layout using signal-to-noise ratio as a point prediction feature. Under the optimized conditions, the optimum total phenolic content and antioxidant capacity of 0.8569 mg/ml gallic acid equivalence and 0.9259 mg/ml were achieved, respectively. The mass ratio was the highest contributor (38.2%), whereas the maceration time presented the least contribution (9.8%) to the cumulative response grade (GRG). In the neural network analysis, three models were deployed: Levenberg Marquardt backpropagation neural network (LMNN), gradient descent with adaptive learning rate neural network (GDALRNN), and the resilient back-propagation neural network (RPNN). A better prediction of hold-out data was achieved with the GDALRNN model, generating lesser absolute deviation error (MADGDALRNN = 0.099), root mean square error (RMSEGDALRNN = 0.1033), relative mean bias error (rMBEGDALRNN =
0.24), and highest computational time (CTGDALRNN = 8.8), which is expected of an effective model. Based on the GRG and the signal-to-noise ratio, the optimum conditions and the neural network model succinctly provided a benchmark for future assessment of complex relationship among extraction variables, which could form the basis for a potential future scale-up applications.

“The integration of Deng’s grey incidence model (GRA) and Taguchi optimization (TM) therefore helps in transforming multiple quality characteristics into a single response presented as the grey relational grade (GRG).”

CONCLUSION

In this study, the effects of maceration

-assisted extraction parameters on the total phenolic content and antioxidant activities were carefully investigated. The extraction parameters such as maceration time, temperature, solvent concentration, agitation, and mass ratio were considered and their optimum conditions were achieved using the GRA integrated with the L16 (25 ) orthogonal design. Also, an ANN was used for the predictive modelling of the extraction parameters using three algorithms: the LMNN, GDALRNN, and RPNN. The integration of GRA, TM, and GDALRNN is an effective method to maximally predict the multiple response

s for different variations of experimental parameters in the solvent extraction process. The optimization and neural modelling are vital tools that can be applied in a possible large scaling of maceration extraction.

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