Tabla de Contenidos: “…Raman spectroscopy combined with multivariate analysis in quality analysis of food and pharmaceutical materials -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Principles of Raman spectroscopy -- 4.3 Raman signal -- 4.4 Types of Raman spectroscopy used for food analysis -- 4.4.1 Micro Raman spectroscopy -- 4.4.2 Raman imaging -- 4.4.3 Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy -- 4.4.4 Near-infrared Raman spectroscopy -- 4.4.5 Fourier transform Raman spectroscopy -- 4.4.6 Spatial offset Raman spectroscopy -- 4.4.7 Raman spectral analysis -- 4.5 Raman spectroscopy to detect the hazards caused by biological agents -- 4.6 Multivariate analysis -- 4.7 Raman spectroscopy for detection of food -- 4.7.1 Raman for milk analysis -- 4.7.2 Raman spectroscopy for butter and margarine -- 4.7.3 Raman spectroscopy for yogurt -- 4.7.4 Raman spectroscopy for meat analysis -- 4.7.5 Raman for olive oil -- 4.7.6 Raman spectroscopy for beverages -- 4.7.7 Wine analysis -- 4.8 Detection of chemicals using Raman analysis -- 4.9 Raman detection for pharmaceuticals -- 4.10 Raman to detect nanomaterials -- 4.11 Raman analysis to prevent physical hazards -- 4.12 Future perspective -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 5. …”