Dear Colleagues,

Today, natural products are attracting significant attention from scientists, doctors, customers and producers alike. This is mainly due to the presence of healing and health-promoting compounds in them. These products include a variety of plants and animal organisms. Recently, products made from the Cannabis sativa family have also been very popular, which, due to the content of non-psychoactive cannabinoids, can constitute a great healing potential in the case of many diseases. The use of natural products in medicine, however, requires reliable quality control; i.e., purity and qualitative and quantitative composition. For this purpose, it is necessary to develop appropriate procedures for the isolation of active ingredients and methods of analyzing the obtained extracts. Thus, the development of efficient extraction methods as well as sensitive, selective and reliable methods for the determination of bioactive compounds, as well as the accompanying potentially harmful ingredients (e.g. pesticides), is a critical step in allowing extracts of natural products for consumption and sale.

This Special Issue encourages you to share your research findings on current developments in the development and application of extraction methods and analytical methods for the determination of analytes in this type of natural product.

Prof. Dr. Wojciech Piekoszewski
Guest Editor

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• Extraction methods
• Analytical methods
• Quantitative analysis
• Natural product extracts
• Chromatography
• HPLC and related techniques
• Mass spectrometry
• Separation technology
• Chemical analysis