Table 2. AI applications in meat quality and food safety assessment

Application area AI techniques Key outcomes References
Meat quality assessment Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) Successfully attained accuracy in the classification of the freshness of meat with improved performance compared to traditional techniques. Elmasry and Abdullah (2024)
Meat freshness detection Ensemble of shallow CNNs (ConvNet-18 and ConvNet-24) ConvNet-18 achieved 99.4% accuracy; ConvNet-24 had 96.6% accuracy in classifying degrees of freshness of meat. Elangovan et al. (2024)
Non-destructive meat quality evaluation Airflow pulse and 3D structured light imaging with AI models Provided real-time, non-invasive prediction of tenderness in meat with a very high level of accuracy (correlation coefficient may reach 0.975). Luo et al. (2023)
Food safety risk prediction Machine learning, deep learning, transformers (e.g., BERT, RoBERTa), explainable AI (XAI) Better prediction of food safety risk by enriched datasets; XAI techniques enhance model transparency. Food Safety Magazine (2025)
Food safety monitoring AI-driven sensor systems Optimized cleaning processes in food production because it was able to detect residual microbes and sanitation on equipment. Smart Food Safe (2025)
Early detection of foodborne illness outbreaks Natural language processing (NLP) on public data AI analyzed online reviews to provide early warnings of foodborne diseases outbreaks, aiding rapid response. Smart Food Safe (2025)
Food safety risk assessment Deep learning with categorical embedding Predicted food safety issues with accuracy ranging from 74.08% to 93.06% using EU data. Nogales et al. (2020)
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