Food Analysis in the 21st Century: Challenges and Possibilities, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Analytical Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 269
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Interests: food chemistry; food analysis; electroanalysis; material science; environmental analysis; ICP-MS
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Dear Colleagues,
In today’s globalized world, there is a growing disconnect between food producers and consumers. The rising concern over food contamination with both well-known and novel pollutants has sparked significant apprehension among consumers, heightening their awareness of the associated risks. Consequently, the role of chemical analysis in food production has become increasingly important. The interest in food quality and safety of consumers, the food industry, governments, and supranational bodies highlights the importance of analyzing the composition and specific attributes of food products. Therefore, food chemistry plays a critical role in enabling scientists and food technologists to manage the quality and safety of their products effectively. It is important that decisions based on analytical data provide the highest assurances for consumers, but they depend on the reliability of the data. This reliability, in turn, depends on the correct execution at every stage of analysis. Therefore, not only is the analytical phase crucial for obtaining trustworthy data, but also are the phases of sampling, pretreatment, and result interpretation.
Following the success of the First Edition, the Second Edition of “Food Analysis in the 21st Century: Challenges and Possibilities” aims to continue the exploration of modern food analysis techniques and their applications. The forum is aimed to provide a platform for analytical chemists and food science and technology experts to present original research articles, reviews, and technical notes on innovative methods and analytical techniques for identifying major, minor, and trace constituents (or xenobiotics) in foods. We encourage contributions that concentrate on new food pretreatment techniques and those that utilize geometric, machine-learning or artificial intelligence-based methods to enhance analytical insights. Additionally, original research aimed at identifying and/or performing the speciation of emerging pollutants in food matrices or chemically characterizing quality and/or origin attributes of foods is highly encouraged. Conversely, studies related to the application of routine analytical methods on well-established food matrices are outside the scope of this Special Issue.
Dr. Gavino Sanna
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- foods
- analysis
- sampling
- pre-treatment
- data handling
- quality
- origin
- food safety
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