Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry for the Determination of Food Authenticity and Food Analysis
A special issue of Separations (ISSN 2297-8739). This special issue belongs to the section "Analysis of Food and Beverages".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 July 2025 | Viewed by 191
Special Issue Editor
Interests: chromatography; mass spectrometry; sample preparation; chemical analysis; analytical chemistry; LC-MS/MS; LC-MS; gas chromatography
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The authenticity of food is a characteristic highly valued by consumers, and for this premium prices will be paid. Food fraud, which refers to the adulteration of food with the fraudulous intention of enhanced financial gain, has become an serious problem. Two examples include honey and wine, where adulteration, due to the large volumes of these products traded and the willingness of the consumer to pay extra for authenticity, can deliver immense illegitimate profits. Therefore, methods of analysis that are able to prove authenticity and detect possible adulterations are in high demand. Liquid and/or gas chromatography and mass spectrometric detection have become essential techniques in food analysis. They enable sensitive targeted analysis to be performed if the markers for specific adulterations are known; if such markers are not known, they faciliate non-targeted analysis (NTA). NTA provides a wealth of information from which multi-variate analysis can filter out possible specific markers or groups of suspicious test samples.
This Special Issue aims to compile papers in which LC- and/or GC-MS have been utilized to analyze food in order to detect adulteration and that exemplify recent advances in food authentication.
Dr. Andreas Breidbach
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- liquid chromatography
- gas chromatography
- mass spectrometry
- adulteration
- food fraud
- multi variate analysis
- authentication
- high resolution MS
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