Pharmaceuticals, Emerging Contaminants, Analysis and Presence in Food and Environmental Samples

Dear Colleagues,

The presence of veterinary medicines in food of animal origin due to their use for animal treatments or of prophylactic is well known and controlled. However, the presence of human pharmaceuticals and veterinary medicines in food and the environment as emerging contaminants is not so well known. More research and publications are required in this field, while work conducted in different parts of the world is needed to compile information on compounds, groups, activity, and concentration, to be able to understand, face, evaluate, and determine the possible risk for animals and humans.

 In this Special Issue, we seek manuscripts which cover analytical methods and data on the presence of pharmaceuticals employed in human and veterinary medicine in food matrices and environmental samples. Potential topics include but are not limited to aspects regarding sampling procedures, sample preparation protocols, and analytical methods such as HPLC-DAD, HPLC-MS/MS, GC-MS, and GC-MS/MS with a low limit of detection or quantification (ng/L or ng/g) in a sample. Without doubt, manuscripts on monitoring studies of environmental and food matrices, including a representative number of samples, with positive results on the presence of pharmaceuticals, will also be welcome in this Special Issue.

Dr. Carolina Nebot
Prof. Dr. Elena Falqué López
Guest Editors

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