Raman Spectroscopy is a non-destructive analysis method without complex pre-processing and it can reduce the costs and time. A surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) technique was tried to the detection of Benzo[a]pyrene which is one of the hazardous minor components of foods. To demonstrate the Raman signal enhancement effect by graphene as substrate, thymine was used as the standard material. As a result, the Raman signal of thymine has 102 enhancement. Herein, new SERS trials established to pursue improve the speed, simplicity and suitability of detecting minor components in foods.

• Mi-hyun Lee(Department of Food Science and Engineering, EwhaWomans University Space-Time Resolved Molecular Imaging Research Team, Korea Basic Science Institute)
• So yoon Yee(Department of Food Science and Engineering, EwhaWomans University Space-Time Resolved Molecular Imaging Research Team, Korea Basic Science Institute)
• DaeSik Choi(SM Tech)
• Hanju Rhee(Space-Time Resolved Molecular Imaging Research Team, Korea Basic Science Institute)
• Jin-kyu Rhee(Department of Food Science and Engineering, EwhaWomans University)