Multiresidue Methods for the Analysis of Pesticide Residues in Food

Description

Pesticide residues can persist for some time and can be harmful to human health, wildlife and the global environment. Determination of such residues helps to keep the production sustainability and to design policies to protect endangered ecosystems. This book presents the key features of pesticide residues analysis in food matrices. It provides both theoretical and practical, updated information on instrumental advances and their applications as well as the main trends in sample preparations protocols employed in MRM pesticide residue analysis. Content: Machine generated contents note: SECTION I REGULATORY ISSUES -- ch. 1 European Union Monitoring Programs / Paula Medina-Pastor -- ch. 2 Monitoring Programs in the United States / Chris Sack -- SECTION II SAMPLE PREPARATION -- ch. 3 Most Common Sample Preparation Methods for Pesticide Residue Analysis: Ethyl Acetate Method, Mini-Luke, and Matrix Solid Phase Dispersion / Ana Lozano -- ch. 4 Sample Preparation Methods for the Determination of Organic Micropollutants / Leo M.L. Nollet -- ch. 5 QuEChERS and Other MRM Sample Preparation Methods: SPE, SPME, DLLME, SBSE, ASE, MAE, SFE / Horacio Heinzen -- SECTION III ANALYSIS -- ch. 6 Gas Chromatography -- Mass Spectrometry: Basic Concepts and Instrumentation / Basil K. Munjanja -- ch. 7 Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS) / Basil K. Munjanja -- ch. 8 Gas Chromatographic Analysis of Pesticide Residues / Andres Perez-Parada -- ch. 9 Applications of LC-MS/MS in Pesticide Residue Analysis: An Overview / Kaushik Banerjee -- ch. 10 Time-of-Flight and Orbitrap Mass Spectrometry for Target and Nontarget Analysis of Pesticide Residues in Food / Amadeo R. Fernandez-Alba -- ch. 11 Databases for Pesticide Residue Analysis / Antonio Molina-Diaz -- ch. 12 QA/QC for Pesticide Residue Analysis / Stanislaw Walorczyk.