**About the Editors**

**Veronica Maria Teresa Lattanzio** (Dr.). Chemist. Senior Researcher at the Institute of Sciences of Food Production—National Research Council of Italy. Coordinator of FOODSAFETY4EU: Multi-Stakeholder Platform for Food Safety in Europe (H2020, G.A. 101000613). As a food safety expert, her main research topic is the development and validation of analytical methods for mycotoxin and pesticide detection based on mass spectrometry techniques and immunoassays, including the organization of collaborative trials. She is a member of the Working Group "Biotoxins" (CEN/TC 275 WG5 "Food Analysis—Horizontal Methods–Biotoxins) of the European Committee for Standardization. She collaborates with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as an expert to provide individual and collective training related to testing chemical contamination for food safety.

**Biancamaria Ciasca** (Dr.) Chemist. Researcher at the Institute of Sciences of Food Production —National Research Council of Italy. Her main research topic is the development and standardization of methods for the analysis of mycotoxins and pesticides in food/feed matrices based on advanced mass spectrometry techniques and immunoassays, including the preparation and characterization of reference materials. She is involved in the development of targeted and untargeted approaches for plant metabolomic studies as well as the integration of open-source tools for data processing and interpretation. She has expertise in social lab organization and facilitation.
