Advanced Analytical Tools for Characterization and Quality Control of Food, Drugs, and Natural Active Ingredients, 4th Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Ensuring the quality, authenticity, safety, and traceability of complex products requires analytical strategies capable of providing comprehensive and reliable information. This is particularly relevant for high-value matrices such as foods and beverages, pharmaceutical products, and naturally derived active ingredients, where chemical complexity and variability often make conventional analytical approaches insufficient. Continuous developments in analytical instrumentation, together with major progress in chemometrics and data processing, are opening new possibilities for addressing these challenges. Modern analytical platforms can generate large amounts of multidimensional data, while advanced data-analysis methods allow relevant chemical information to be extracted and translated into effective tools for product characterization and quality assessment.

This Special Issue,“Advanced Analytical Tools for Characterization and Quality Control of Food, Drugs, and Natural Active Ingredients, 4th Edition”, welcomes original research presenting innovative analytical and data-driven approaches for the characterization, authentication, classification, quality control, and traceability of food products, beverages, natural active ingredients, and pharmaceuticals. Contributions combining instrumental techniques with chemometric, multivariate, or other advanced data-analysis methodologies are particularly encouraged.

The Special Issue also welcomes review articles offering critical perspectives on recent developments, emerging methodologies, and future directions in this rapidly evolving research area.

Dr. Alessandra Biancolillo
Dr. Angelo Antonio D'Archivio
Guest Editors

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