Advanced Analytical Methods for Food Safety and Composition Analysis
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Analytical Methods".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2026 | Viewed by 36
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food quality and safety; nutritional quality; high-throughput rapid detection technology; risk monitoring; metabolomics
Interests: molecularly imprinted nanomaterials; chemosensors and fluorescence probe; separation and purification methods; chromatographic analysis; food quality and safety
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ensuring food safety and accurately determining food composition are critical for public health, regulatory compliance, and quality control in the food industry. With the expansion of the global food trade and the continuous emergence of new food products, consumers and regulatory bodies are increasingly demanding high-quality, reliable analytical methods.
The complexity of food matrices, the presence of various contaminants (both known and emerging), and the need to precisely determine nutritional and bioactive components pose challenges to traditional analytical techniques. Thus, there is an urgent call for the development and application of advanced analytical methods in the food science field.
This Special Issue aims to gather the latest research on innovative analytical methods for accurately determining food composition and assessing food safety.
We invite anyone working in related areas to contribute with a study, communication, or review article.
Potential Topics include the following:
- Next-generation spectroscopic techniques;
- High-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS);
- Biosensors and nanotechnology-based detection;
- Advanced chromatographic methods;
- Omics approaches;
- Emerging contaminants analysis;
- Standardization and validation of novel analytical methods;
- Sustainable and green analytical chemistry;
- Advanced molecular imprinting technology (MIT);
- Advanced chemosensors and fluorescence probes.
Dr. Zhen Yan
Dr. Yang Cheng
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Foods is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
- food safety
- nutritional quality
- analytical methods
- mass spectrometry
- nanotechnology
- metabolomics
- separation, extraction, and purification
- molecularly imprinted polymers
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