Analytical Methods for Food and Environmental Pollutants: Current and Future Perspectives
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Analytical Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 2015
Special Issue Editors
Interests: analytical chemistry; food and environmental chemistry; method development; sample preparation; chromatographic techniques; chemometrics
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Interests: environmental analytical chemistry; separation methods (GC-MS/MS, LC–MS/MS); sample treatment; priority and emerging pollutants (organic compounds, metals and radioisotopes)
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Modern analytical chemistry has been described as an effort to detect an increasing number of exotic and emerging contaminants at trace levels. The acquisition of accurate chemical data in food and environmental systems and effective management of pollutants are essential for food quality and safety and for environmental preservation, respectively. This special issue aims to cover the most significant developments and innovative use of analytical methods to investigate relevant pollutants. Contributions focusing on the following areas of pollutant analysis are warmly invited:
- Sampling (passive sampling, improving sample representativeness).
- Sample preparation (new developments for enhanced solvent extractions, alternative phases for sorptive extractions, new configurations and strategies in microextractions).
- Analytical instrumentation (hyphenated techniques using mass spectrometry for organic pollutants, atomic spectrometry for trace metals and metalloids, sensors and biosensors in field pollution control).
- Chemometric tools (quantitative methods and statistical evaluation).
Prof. Dr. Esteban Alonso
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- emerging pollutants
- food samples
- environmental samples
- sampling
- sample preparation
- analytical instrumentation
- chemometric tools
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