UHPLC-High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry for Food Analysis

Dear Colleagues,

Nowadays, quality assurance and food safety does not affect only food, but also involves all those materials and components destined to come into contact with it. These include a direct or indirect contacts, with machinery to process food, packaging materials, containers for transporting food and kitchenware. Such materials and articles are called Food contact Materials (FCMs). FCMs have a significant impact on the safety of the food itself, and the most significant rick is the expositure to chemicals  due to substances transferred from the contacts materials to the food. For these reasons there is a growing interest on the development and validation of new, fast, precise, and accurate methods for the determination of regulated additives and non-intentionally added substances (NIAS) migrating from food contact materials (FCMs). Moreover, there are still gaps in migration testing using food simulants. In recent years, a number of Books as well as review articles have been published focused on analytical approaches, toxicity, the source of contamination, and legislative issues about FCMs. This book aims to provide new and advanced approaches of FCMs analysis, offering a critical overview of the disregarded aspects of chemical migration, their extraction and food simulants.

Prof. Dr. Claudio Corradini
Guest Editor

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• Food contact materials
• Non-intentionally added substances
• Analytical approaches
• UHPLC-MS
• Polymer additives and degradation products
• Food simulants