Food Analysis: Ensuring Safety, Quality, and Authenticity
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Analytical Methods".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2026 | Viewed by 263
Special Issue Editors
Interests: antioxidants; endocrine disruptors; fatty acids, food safety; lipid oxidation; One Health
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Interests: analytical chemistry; gas chromatography; public health; environmental health; food safety; One Health; quality control; endocrine disruptors; xenobiotics; persistent pollutants; emergent pollutants; environmental contaminats
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Food analysis plays a central role in protecting public health and maintaining consumer confidence by ensuring the safety, quality, and authenticity of food products. Advances in analytical chemistry, molecular biology, and data science have significantly enhanced our capacity to detect contaminants, residues, allergens, pathogens, adulterants, and food fraud within complex matrices. Molecular biology techniques, such as PCR-based methods, DNA barcoding, and next-generation sequencing, have become indispensable tools for species identification, authenticity verification, and traceability, effectively complementing classical chemical analyses. Reliable food analysis underpins regulatory compliance, risk assessment, and quality control across the entire food supply chain, from primary production to final consumption. In parallel, growing consumer expectations regarding transparency, origin verification, and sustainability demand robust and sensitive methodologies. Modern approaches, including chromatography, mass spectrometry, spectroscopy, biosensors, and omics technologies, combined with chemometric and statistical tools, provide comprehensive solutions to emerging challenges in food analysis.
This Special Issue aims to highlight recent advances and innovative strategies in food authenticity, safety, and quality assessment, with a particular focus on the development, validation, and application of cutting-edge analytical methodologies. By promoting the dissemination and valorisation of novel analytical tools and concepts, this Special Issue intends to support regulatory frameworks, strengthen consumer trust, and foster sustainable and transparent food systems.
As Guest Editors of the Special Issue "Food Analysis: Ensuring Safety, Quality, and Authenticity" of Foods, we would like to invite you to contribute an article or review paper.
We look forward to your collaboration.
Prof. Dr. Valentina Fernandes Domingues
Dr. Sara Sousa
Dr. Sónia Soares
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pesticides
- flame retardants
- polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
- dioxin
- fatty acids
- environmental contaminants
- persistent pollutants
- emergent pollutants
- food safety
- DNA-based methods
- food authenticity
- food fraud
- food traceability
- species identification
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