Application of New Methods for the Determination of Contaminants in Food and Environmental Quality and Safety

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue entitled “Application of New Methods for the Determination of Contaminants in Food and Environmental Quality and Safety” aims to provide a scientific overview of the latest trends in the fields of quality and safety applied to both food and environmental samples. Therefore, in this Special Issue, we would like to collect papers and critical reviews describing the forefront of research dealing with contaminants, with special attention to contaminants of emerging concern that nowadays are widespread in the environment (air, water, sediments, biota, etc.) and, consequently, also in food. Moreover, food could be affected by other natural exogenous contaminants, such as mycotoxins. Research papers and review articles that describe innovative methods in the field of food and environmental quality and safety fall under the scope of this Special Issue. Topics of interest include, just to mention a few examples, new sample preparation strategies for established or emerging analytes; new analytical methods for rapid screening; methods based on metabolomics, metaproteomics, or other omic techniques for qualitative and quantitative analysis; and targeted analysis for trace-level determination and quantitation.

The final aim of this Special Issue is to provide the scientists working in food and environmental quality and safety fields with an up-to-date overall view of novel available methods. In this way, we hope to encourage further developments and ideas to meet the urgent requests from both citizens and public authorities to eat safe and healthy food in a clean environment.

Prof. Dr. Chiara Cavaliere
Dr. Susy Piovesana
Guest Editors

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• food safety
• food quality
• environmental contaminants
• contaminants of emerging concern
• screening methods
• confirmation methods