Chromatographic Methods for Environment, Biota and Food Contaminants Analysis

Dear Colleagues，

Controlling and preventing ecosystem pollution has become a primary global concern. Anthropogenic activities such as industrial spills, agricultural runoff, improper waste disposal, and other daily activities introduce numerous organic contaminants into various ecosystems, affecting soil, water, the air, and ultimately biota and food. In addition, the formation of transformation products or metabolites from contaminants and residues is becoming an increasingly important topic for the scientific community. Organic compounds can form different compounds, through either transformation products or metabolites, due to metabolism, photolysis, and chemical and hydrolysis processes that take place in organisms and the environment. Some of these products have been reported to have more harmful effects on the ecosystem, biota, and human health than the original compound. Therefore, establishing effective monitoring methods is indispensable for assessing ecosystem and food quality, identifying sources of pollution and implementing remedial or corrective measures.

Chromatography is essential for identifying and quantifying various organic pollutants in many complex environmental, biota, or food samples. Some of the challenges currently identified in the use of chromatographic methods for the analysis of environmental, biota, and food contaminants have arisen from the complexity of the matrices analyzed, the lack of standardized analytical procedures dedicated to the new generation of contaminants, the scarcity of knowledge about all potential contaminants, and not least the trace amounts that these new generation pollutants and their by-products might be found in in environmental, biota, or food matrices. This Special Issue aims to deepen our knowledge of chromatographic techniques used for assessing pollution challenges in environmental matrices, biota and food samples, thus inspiring innovative monitoring solutions throughout to contribute to a cleaner and more sustainable global environment based on different chromatographic techniques.

Dr. Melinda Haydee Kovács
Dr. Emőke Dalma Kovács
Guest Editors

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• Gas chromatography
• Liquid chromatography
• Detectors (including mass spectrometer)
• Extraction procedures
• Purification techniques
• Environmental samples
• Biological samples