Analytical Methods for Food Quality and Safety Analysis
A special issue of Separations (ISSN 2297-8739). This special issue belongs to the section "Analysis of Food and Beverages".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 April 2024) | Viewed by 539
Special Issue Editor
Interests: food safety; risk analysis; metabolomics; mass spectrometry; ion mobility spectrometry
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Dear Colleagues,
Food analysis represents a very challenging task, not only because of the wide range of complex combinations of macronutrients, water, and additives that make up different food products, but also because of the numerous objectives that it covers. From a general perspective, food analysis aims to 1) provide information on the nutritional content of foods to understand their benefits and risks to promote human health through a balanced diet; 2) ensure the reliable quality control of food processing to meet consumer demands; 3) protect the consumer from food fraud; and 4) guarantee food safety and traceability by complying with food and trade laws.
Nowadays, food analysis is gaining traction as it aims to understand the interactions of food with the environment and their consequences (i.e. large-scale production, organic production, environmental contamination, etc.). It can also provide information on how to improve health by incorporating functional foods, functional ingredients, and/or nutraceuticals into the diet.
In this framework, food analysis continuously demands appropriate methods to determine a wide range of compounds with different physico-chemical properties, but these must also provide robustness, high sensitivity, precision, specificity, and speed of analysis.
It is my pleasure to invite you to participate in the next Special Issue of Separations titled “Analytical Methods for Food Quality and Safety Analysis”, which covers the development and application of analytical methods in food analysis for achieving one or several of the abovementioned objectives.
Dr. Maykel Hernández-Mesa
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- food analysis
- food safety
- food authentication
- nutritional quality
- food processing
- functional food
- nutraceuticals
- mass spectrometry
- sensors
- sample preparation
