Advanced Analytical Techniques in Food Analysis
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Cross-Field Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 July 2024 | Viewed by 2731
Special Issue Editor
Interests: food chemistry; food analysis; antioxidant activity; nutraceutics; dietary supplements
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Consumers need healthy, nutritious, traceable, authentic, safe, and environment-friendly foods. The use of validated analytical methods and the storage of this information in a decentralized public book certificate the food quality. The ISO international certifications have identified some traditional analyses to determine food components and toxins. Unfortunately, many have long analysis times and high costs and require expert personnel for their execution. Nowadays, technologies are available that have short analysis times, low management costs, are more environmentally friendly than official techniques, and often are automated. A robust validation procedure is required when non-certified methods are used, or changes are made to official methods. The purpose of validating an analysis method is to prove the adequacy of the procedure in question, document the operator's competence to conduct the work (by verifying the quality parameters obtained through appropriate procedures) and provide sufficient data to define the control limits that are helpful in verifying compliance with the quality parameters during daily work. The validation process guarantees that the sensitivity of the new tests is equivalent to that of the official methods and their application to the matrix of interest.
This Special Issue collects research articles and reviews papers dealing with the possible uses of innovative technologies in food analysis. In particular, the following topics are of interest:
- The use of spectrophotometric technologies in food analysis;
- The use of mass spectroscopy in food analysis;
- The use of NMR in food analysis;
- Automated apparatus for food analysis;
- Enzymatic tests for food analyses;
- PCR in food analysis;
- The validation process of food methods;
- The metrological approach in food analysis.
Prof. Dr. Irene Dini
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- spectroscopic methods
- validation
- automated analytical methods
- metrological approach
- PCR
- enzymatic methods
