Ensuring Food Safety: Hazards and Control of Residues and Contaminants in Food
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Toxicology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2025 | Viewed by 2664
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pesticides; bioactive compounds; natural toxins; miniaturization; sample preparation; liquid chromatography; ion mobility spectrometry; mass spectrometry; green solvents; sustainable analytical methods; food safety
Interests: pesticides; antibiotics; natural toxins; sample preparation; miniaturization; capillary electrophoresis; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The presence of residues and contaminants in food poses significant risks to public health. Key hazards include chemical residues such as heavy metals, pesticides, drugs and plasticizers, as well as biological agents like natural toxins (plant toxins, mycotoxins and phycotoxins). These contaminants can lead to acute health effects to chronic diseases, making their control essential for food safety. Understanding cross-contamination and the co-occurrence of these contaminants is essential for assessing emerging risks.
To address this issue, there is a need for developing novel analytical methods for their determination as food samples. Less-investigated matrices, like nutraceuticals and dietary supplements, are particularly important given their rising consumption. Moreover, trends in Green Analytical Chemistry encourage the use of sustainable methodologies. We invite researchers to share their innovative findings in this Special Issue to deepen knowledge related to food safety.
Dr. Laura Carbonell-Rozas
Prof. Dr. Monsalud Del Olmo-Iruela
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- natural toxins
- pesticides
- veterinary drugs
- plasticizers and microplastics
- advanced analytical methodologies
- miniaturized sample treatments
- Green Analytical Chemistry
- occurrence in food
- food samples
- nutraceuticals and dietary supplements
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