This book will be a potential addition to the scientific literature on recent advancements in agriculture, meat science technology, food safety, dairy technology, cereal science, nanotechnology, waste utilization and quality assurance of food and functional foods. Also, the content of book is designed systematically to include significant and scientific research and advancement for new product development and advanced knowledge on nutritional attributes of the dairy and cereal based products. This book will be an important reference material for students, researchers and academicians dealing with different aspects of foods. Contents: 1. Recent developments in reducing postharvest losses of food in India/Subhash Prasad and Tanmay Hazra. 2. Agricultural waste to Biochar: a new eco-friendly approach in Indian scenario/Ankit Singla, Varsha Singla, Harish Kumar, Gagnesh Sharma and Kazuyuki Inubushi. 3. Meat, fish and poultry waste: a challenge or an opportunity/Sanju B. Dhull, Anil Panghal, Navnidhi Chhikara, Prince Chawla Lovepreet Gill and Surbhi Sharma. 4. Status of agro-industrial byproducts and wastes: special emphasis on Deoiled Rice Bran, Paddy Husk, Potato Peel and Banana Peel/Kulsum Jan, Khalid Bashir, Shumaila Jan and D.C. Saxena. 5. Role of essential oils in meat and meat products/Heena Sharma, Sudheer Kumar, Tarun Pal Singh, Arvind, Anupama Sharma. 6. Chitosan and its application in dairy industry/Priyanka Singh Rao, Heena Sharma, Richa Singh Karuna Meghawal and Diwas Pradhan. 7.Non-conventional probiotics for human use/Sudheendra CH. V.K, Gopikrishna G, Madhavi T.V. and Tanmay Hazra. 8. Nutrigenomics in food technology/Kamal Gandhi, Tanmay Hazra, Seema Rana and Ravinder Kaushik .9. Micronutrient fortification in milk and milk products/Sumit Arora, Apurva Sharma, Shilpa Shree and Chitra Gupta. 10. Hygienic design of the food processing equipments/Subhash Prasad, Tanmay Hazra and Sudheendra CH. V. K. 11. Modification of starch by gamma irradiation: a novel approach/Khalid Bashir, Kulsum Jan and Shumaila Jan. 12. Non traditional and analytical instrument based approaches to ascertain the purity of ghee/Tanmay Hazra, Priti Saha, Parmar Manish Kumar Pratap Singh and Vivek Sharma. 13. Pulsed electric field and its applications in food processing/Manvesh Kumar Sihag, Nitika Sandhu, Ankit Goyal, Nihir Shah Beenu Tanwar and Ami Patel. 14. Food adulteration: types, their effects and control/Pardeep Kumar Sadh, Suresh Kumar Rohilla, Sandeep Kumar and Joginder Singh Duhan. 15. Advancement in chromatographic detection of organophosphorus pesticides in food and agricultural samples/Prince Chawla, Ravinder Kaushik and Naveen Kumar.