Innovative Technologies in Food Detection

Dear Colleagues,

With the rapid development of economic globalization, food safety problems occur frequently, which poses a great threat to public health. At present, the traditional detection methods for food contaminants mainly use high-performance liquid chromatography, gas chromatography, liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry, enzyme-linked immunoassay, PCR, etc. Although these detection methods can obtain accurate detection results, the detection process is cumbersome and complicated, and it is difficult to achieve rapid detection in the field. Therefore, the food industry and consumers demand for innovative technologies to ensure the quality and safety of food in the supply chain.

This Special Issue aims to call for the latest innovative sample preparation technologies and analytical techniques applied for the quality and safety analysis of food products.

This Special Issue will collect publications on topics including (but not limited to):

• Solid-phase extraction techniques;
• QuEChERS methods;
• Porous nanomaterials;
• Optical nanosensors;
• Spectroscopic techniques;
• Electrochemical detection techniques.

Dr. Kaiqiang Wang
Dr. Weiwei Cheng
Guest Editors

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