Food Contaminants and Residue Analysis

Food Contaminants and Residue Analysis treats different aspects of the analysis of contaminants and residues in food, and highlights some current concerns facing this field. The content is initiated by an overview on food safety, the objectives and importance of determining contaminants and residues in food, and the problems and challenges associated to these analyses. This is followed by full details of relevant EU and USA regulations. Topics, such as conventional chromatographic methods, accommodating clean up, and preparing substances for further instrumental analysis, are encompassed with new analytical techniques that have been developed, significantly, over the last few years, like solid phase microextraction, liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry, immunoassays, and biosensors. A wide range of toxic contaminants and residues, from pesticides to mycotoxins or dioxins are examined, including also polychlorinated biphenyls, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, N-nitrosamines, heterocyclic amines, acrylamide, semicarbazide, phtalates and food packing migrating substances. This book can be a practical resource that offers ideas on how to choose the most effective techniques for determining these compounds as well as on how to solve problems or to provide relevant information.
Logically structured and with numerous examples Food Contaminants and Residue Analysis will be valuable as reference and training guide for post-graduate students, as well as a practical tool for a wide range of experts: biologists, biochemists, microbiologists, food chemists, toxicologists, chemists, agronomists, hygienist, and everybody who need to use the analytical techniques for evaluating food safety.

Chapter 1. Challenges in Chemical Food Contaminants and Residue Analysis, Michel W.F. Nielen and Hans J.P. Marvin
Chapter 2. International regulations on food contaminants and residue analysis., Ioannis S. Arvanitoyannis
Chapter 3. Guidelines on quality implementation for analytical methods., Sergio Caroli
Chapter 4. Immunochemical and receptor technologies: The role of Immunoassay, Immunoaffinity chromatography, Immunosensors, and Molecularly Imprinted Polymeric Sensors, Marinel.la Farré, Elena Martínez and Damià Barceló
Chapter 5. Advanced sample preparation techniques for the analysis of food contaminants and residues , Pat Sandra, Frank David and Gerd Vanhoenacker
Chapter 6. Recent developments in chromatographic techniques,
Katerina Mastovska
Chapter 7. New approaches in mass spectrometry, Yolanda Picó
Chapter 8. Capillary based separation techniques, Peter Viberg
Chapter 9. Pesticide residues, Anna Sannino
Chapter 10. Food Contaminants and Residue Analysis, Sherri B. Turnipseed and Wendy C. Andersen
Chapter 11. Analytical strategies to control the illegal
use of banned growth promoters in meat produced animals, Bruno Le Bizec, Jean-Philippe Artignac and Gaud Pinel
Chapter 12. Mycotoxins, Carlo Brera, Barbara De Santis, Francesca Debegnach and Marina Miraglia
Chapter 13. Phycotoxins, Kevin J. James, Daniel O'Driscoll, Javier García Fernández and Ambrose Furey
Chapter 14. Persistent organochlorine pollutants, dioxins and
polychlorinated biphenyls, Marie-Louise Scippo, Gauthier Eppe, Claude Saegerman, Georges Scholl, Edwin De Pauw, Guy Maghuin-Rogister and Jean-François Focant
Chapter 15. Brominated Flame Retardants as Food Contaminants, Adrian Covaci, Stefan Voorspoels, Kyle D'Silva, Janice Huwe and Stuart Harrad
Chapter 16. Metals, Clinio Locatelli
Chapter 17. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, Katsumi Tamakawa
Chapter 18. Methods for the Determination of N-nitroso Compounds in
Food and Biological Matrices, Sidney S. Mirvish
Chapter 19. Heterocyclic Amines, Mark G. Knize and James S. Felton
Chapter 20. Acrylamide, chloropropanols and chloropropanol esters, furans, Richard H. Stadler and Till Goldman
Chapter 21. Food Contact Materials, Catherine Simoneau
Chapter 22. Non-target Multicomponent Analytical Surveillance
of Food Contact Materials, Leon Coulier, Sander Koster, Bas Muilwijk, Leo van Stee, Ruud Peters, Esther Zondervan-van den Beuken, Rinus Rijk, Monique Rennen, Geert Houben and William D. van Dongen