Special Issue "Instrumental and Bioanalytical Methods for Food Contaminant Detection"
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2021.
Special Issue Editors
Interests: chemical food safety; environmental contaminants; pesticides; analytical chemistry; QA/QC
Interests: point-of-care diagnostics; smartphone-based analysis; food safety, pesticide residues, mycotoxins; biosensors; instrumental analysis; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; food analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Food safety is of paramount importance for a wide variety of stakeholders, namely, producers, industry, governmental bodies, or citizens. However, the intensive and globalized food production indicates that food testing from farm-to-fork is a rather challenging task. In fact, although regulatory requirements are in force globally, contaminated food is still consumed, resulting in (i) health-related problems due to acute toxicity incidents, e.g., consumption of an undeclared allergen; (ii) significant financial losses as in the fipronil case (insecticide in eggs, EU, 2017); and (iii) foodborne diseases such as salmonellosis. Therefore, the development of analytical methods able to provide fit-for-purpose results is necessary to tackle such emerging risks. Two different types of methods (in principle complementary) have been applied, namely, instrumental analysis and screening analytical methods predominantly based on biorecognition events.
We are pleased to invite you to submit papers that showcase and discuss novel analytical methods (both instrumental and sensor-based) in the food safety field. The submitted papers should address rapid, cost-efficient, robust, and sensitive analytical procedures to allow effective testing of toxicologically relevant food contaminants.
This Special Issue aims to provide a fruitful collection of papers (both original and review papers) based on (a) novel chromatographic separation methods coupled to various detectors with special emphasis to mass spectrometric (MS) detection, (b) optical and electrochemical biosensors and their potential to be hyphenated with smartphones as their analytical detector, (c) approaches to automate and miniaturize food contaminant analysis, e.g., lab-on-a-chip (LOC) assays or micro total analysis systems (μTAS), and (d) method validation and cross comparison toward golden standard methods.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Jana Pulkrabova
Dr. Aristeidis Tsagkaris
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- chromatography
- mass spectrometry
- biosensors
- bioassays
- point-of-care
- lab-on-a-chip
- food safety
- food contaminants
- validation