Rapid Detection of Chemical Hazards in Food: Monitoring, Risk Assessment and Risk Mitigation Measures
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Analytical Methods".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 417
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food safety; mycotoxins; pesticides; liquid chromatography–mass spectromentry
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: food safety; mycotoxins; bioremediation; fungi
Interests: spectroscopy; food chemistry; food additives and contaminants; food analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The increase in chemical hazards, including emerging natural contaminants and veterinary drug and pesticide residues, is prompting the development of new technologies and platforms for their rapid and reliable detection. Validation studies are of the utmost importance in guaranteeing the fitness for purpose of the developed approaches. Once validated, these technologies can provide real-time data to support exposure and risk assessment studies, as well as data collection for industry self-monitoring and official control. Furthermore, they play a crucial role in risk mitigation strategies, enabling the identification, assessment, and management of potential food safety risks and allowing timely interventions and effective control measures, thus safeguarding society and industries.
Our aim for this Special Issue is to collect original research and review papers on the development, validation, and application of methodologies to monitor, assess, and mitigate foodborne risks and guarantee the safety of food and feed along the supply chain.
Dr. Biancamaria Ciasca
Dr. Martina Loi
Dr. Christoph von-Holst
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- chemical hazards
- food contaminants
- veterinary drugs
- pesticides
- rapid methods
- monitoring
- risk assessment
- risk mitigation
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