Exploring the Interplay of Agriculture, Analytical Chemistry, Environments and Toxics

Dear Colleagues,

The interaction between agriculture, analytical chemistry, environments, and toxic products represents a search for knowledge, innovation, and management that has profound implications for the future of global food security, environmental sustainability, and public health. With the analysis and monitoring of soils, water, and food, we can work towards sustainable and safe agricultural practices that benefit both the environment and human health, enabling the optimization and development of crops, and thus minimizing the impact of harmful chemicals. In this sense, aspects of fundamental and applied analytical chemistry unite traditional disciplines within chemistry, between chemistry and neighboring disciplines. This favors the gathering of information of interest across the broader chemical and scientific community, enabling the conduction of advanced studies related to all aspects of chemicals and toxic materials, as well as instrumental and methodological techniques, such as chromatography and hyphenated instruments, the pre-treatment and extraction of samples, and electroanalysis in applications in analytical, environmental, biological, clinical/pharmaceutical, and industrial contexts. Thus, the central role of chemistry today is to enable and encourage the scientific community to publish their innovative experimental, theoretical, and practical results in a variety of areas and interfaces ranging from health, food, risk assessment, human exposure, toxic chemicals, environmental system monitoring, and experimental approaches to characterize exposure in different media.

Dr. Bruno Lemos Batista
Dr. Tatiana Pedron
Dr. Camila Neves Lange
Topic Editors