Dear Colleagues,

Veterinary drugs used in animal husbandry can pose several risks for human health in the event of entrance into the food chain; therefore, monitoring of their residues in food and feed is required to enforce the legislation and protect food safety.

This Special Issue focuses on the recent developments in analytical methods for the determination of the drugs of major concern, i.e., anthelmintics, antimicrobial agents, dyes, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, growth-promoting substances, such as steroids, β-agonist compounds, thyreostats or growth hormones, etc., in feed, food and biological matrices using liquid or gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry.

Manuscripts presenting validated methods that demonstrate novelties or improvements over existing methods, as well as surveys in order to evaluate contamination levels, will be welcome.

Dr. Giorgio Saluti
Dr. Giampiero Scortichini
Guest Editors

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• Veterinary drugs
• Food
• Feed
• Mass spectrometry
• Sample preparation
• Method validation