Detection and Characterization of Natural Toxins in Food Matrices
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Toxicology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 600
Special Issue Editors
Interests: contaminants; bioactive compounds; natural toxins; miniaturization; microextraction; sample preparation; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; novel sorbents; analytical methods
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Interests: contaminants; bioactive compounds; natural toxins; sample preparation; novel materials as sorbents; miniaturization; microextraction; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; validated analytical methods; electrochemical sensors; food control; food quality
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Natural toxins represent an important group of chemical contaminants that are unintentionally present in food or feed commodities due to food production, processing, handling or transport. These toxins are produced by fungi, algae or plants including some weeds and sea plankton and they have been the focus of the scientific community in the last few years, due to their high toxicity. In this sense, more information is needed on the occurrence of mycotoxins, aquatic biotoxins, pyrrolizidine alkaloids, tropane alkaloids, opium alkaloids, glycoalkaloids, cyanogenic glycosides, lectins and furocoumarins, among others, and it is necessary to sensitive, selective, accurate and robust analytical methods for the assessment of these families of natural toxins in different foods. In that respect, substantial efforts are needed to simplify the overall sample preparation step and to tailor it to the Green Analytical Chemistry (GAC) principles. This information is necessary to generate reliable concentration data to ensure a correct risk assessment and to be able to limit exposure to natural toxins from certain foods in the population.
Prof. Dr. Isabel Sierra Alonso
Prof. Dr. Sonia Morante Zarcero
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- natural toxins
- mycotoxins and aquatic biotoxins
- pyrrolizidine alkaloids
- tropane alkaloids
- opium alkaloids
- glycoalkaloids
- advanced analytical methodologies
- green Analytical Chemistry (GAC) principles
- occurrence in food
- exposure for the population
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