Progress in Analytical Methods for the Characterization, Quality and Safety of the Beehive Products
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Analytical Chemistry".
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Interests: analytical chemistry; validation of analytical methods; chemometrics and data analysis; environmental chemistry and monitoring; food chemistry and analysis; speciation analysis; science of materials; electroanalytical methods; sensors and biosensors; modification of electrode surfaces; gas-chromatography; liquid chromatography; hyphenated methods; ICP-MS methods; FT-IR methods; determination of trace analytes in foods; food georeferencing and traceability; bioaccumulation of toxic elements in cereals; synthesis and characterization of conductive polymers; biomedical analysis in dental research; studies of equilibria in solution between metal ions and ligands of biological interest; ability of vegetal biomasses in removal of organic pollutants by wastewaters
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Interests: analytical chemistry; validation of analytical methods; chemometrics and data analysis; food chemistry and analysis; liquid chromatography; gas-chromatography; HPLC methods; GC methods; LC-MS; LC-MS/MS; GC-MS; SPME methods; extraction and characterization of bioactive compounds; determination of trace analytes in foods; food authentication and traceability
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2. Food and Environmental Safety Research Group, Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Food Science, Toxicology and Legal Medicine, University of Valencia, Avda. Vicente Andrés Estellés s/n, 46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
3. Research Center on Desertification (CIDE, UV-CSIC-GV), Carretera Moncada-Náquera, 46113 Moncada, Valencia, Spain
Interests: development of new analytical methods to determine organic contaminants in food and the environment, identification of metabolites, degradation products and unknown compounds by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry; environmental risk assessment; environmental and food safety; application of “omics” techniques to environmental problems; development of environmental forensic approaches
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Interests: analytical chemistry; development and validation of analytical methods (liquid- and gas-chromatography, spectroscopic methods, HPLC-ICP-MS, electroanalytical methods); food chemistry and analysis; environmental chemistry; speciation analysis; sensors and biosensors; synthesis and characterization of conductive polymers; studies of equilibria in solution between metal ions and ligands of biological interest; characterization of different components in biomasses
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Interests: food chemistry and analysis; natural bioactive compounds; antioxidants; phenolic compounds; beehive products; analytical chemistry; validation of analytical methods; extraction techniques; liquid-chromatography; gas-chromatography; hyphenated methods; chemometrics and data analysis; agro-food quality control; by-product valorization
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Dear Colleagues,
Although beehive products have been known for millennia by humankind, their relevance in contemporary society is continuously growing. The most popular of them, honey, already used by the Neolithic man as a sweetener and medicament, is the object of thousands of published contributions. In addition, scientists also show an untiring interest towards other beehive products like beeswax, pollen, propolis, and royal jelly. The reasons for this success are several: Alongside the growing awareness of consumers that the biological and health properties of beehive foods strongly depend on factors like freshness, quality, safety, and origin, the scientific and technologic evolution of the analytical approaches is reflected in the improvement of specificity, sensitivity, accuracy, and robustness of the methods used for their characterization. Hence, this Special Issue of Molecules will be mainly addressed to collect original articles, reviews, and technical notes providing the most recent and performing methods aimed to characterize, in terms of both quality and safety, beehive and beehive-derived products. Emphasis will be devoted to original, fully validated methods, as well as to new chemometric procedures aimed at maximizing the information contained in analytical data.
Dr. Gavino Sanna
Dr. Marco Ciulu, PhD
Prof. Dr. Yolanda Picò
Dr. Nadia Spano, PhD
Dr. Carlo I.G. Tuberoso
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Keywords
- Beehive products
- Honey
- Propolis
- Beeswax
- Royal jelly
- Pollen
- Nectar
- Bee venom
- Food traceability
- Food quality
- Food safety
- Spectroscopy
- Chromatography
- Electroanalysis
- Mass spectrometry
- Hyphenated methods
- Chemometrics
- Saccharides
- Lipids
- Proteins
- Amino acids
- Polyphenols
- Flavonoids
- Vitamins
- Trace compounds
- Volatile compounds
- Contaminants
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