Applications of Analytical Separations in Foods and Medicinal Products

Dear Colleagues,

Analytical chemistry plays an important role in ensuring the safety and quality of commercially available food and medicinal products (including pharmaceutical and herbal drugs). Analytical separation techniques such as the different modes of chromatography (liquid, gas, supercritical fluid) and capillary electrophoresis (e.g., capillary zone electrophoresis, electrokinetic chromatography, capillary electrochromatography, capillary gel electrophoresis, capillary isoelectric focusing) have therefore been popularly used for the analysis of raw materials, intermediate and finished food, and medicinal products. In addition, analytical separations combined with powerful detection techniques such as mass spectrometry that offer added selectivity and sensitivity have been especially useful to more complex samples. This Special Issue will highlight recent advancements in the use of analytical separation and detection methods for the analysis of food and medicinal products. We welcome research and review article submissions on the analysis or profiling of compounds with nutritional and flavor values in foods, bioactives including toxic compounds in herbal medicine, and impurities in pharmaceuticals. Other important topics include the determination of regulated and unregulated natural and artificial toxins in foods, screening of bioactives in chemical libraries or plants, analytical methods for preclinical, clinical, and commercial drug (small and large molecules) analysis, validation and method transfer, development of separation media/materials for chiral and chiral compounds, application of innovative methods for the compliance of products, and applications of green chemistry to analytical separations for foods and medicinal products.

Prof. Dr. Joselito P. Quirino
Guest Editor

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