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Special Collection: Food Chemical Contaminants
The Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL publishes a wide array of papers under the category of Food Chemical Contaminants, which contribute to the overarching goal of ensuring food safety and protecting public health. This section offers insight into the latest methods and technologies in analytical chemistry, with a particular focus on food safety and quality control.
These papers primarily address the detection, quantification, and mitigation of harmful chemicals in food products. The research encompasses:
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Development and validation of methods to detect contaminants such as pesticides, heavy metals, mycotoxins, and other harmful substances in food matrices.
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Accurate measurement of contaminant levels in food products using advanced analytical techniques like LC-MS/MS, GC-MS, and ICP-MS.
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Exploration of methods to remove or reduce contaminants, ensuring that food products meet safety standards.
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Evaluation of the potential health risks associated with exposure to various chemical contaminants in food.
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Compliance with national and international safety standards and regulations.
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Innovation in analytical methods for more sensitive, accurate, and efficient detection of contaminants.
This comprehensive approach ensures the integrity of the food supply chain and the safety of consumers.
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Background Fruit juices are one of the most non-alcoholic beverages consumed in the world. Essential elements and other nutrients present in fruit juices play an important role in human well-being. However, fruit juices may also contain potentially toxic elements at trace levels, causing health ...
Background Food allergen analysis is essential for the development of a risk-based approach for allergen management and labeling. MS has become a method of choice for allergen analysis, even if quantification remains challenging. Moreover, harmonization is still lacking between laboratories, while ...
Background Spices and herbs are food categories regularly cited as highly susceptible to be adulterated. To detect potential adulteration with undeclared species, DNA-based methods are considered the most suitable tools. Objective In this study, the performance of the ready-to-use Thermo ...
Background Determining the concentration of nanoparticles (NPs) in marine organisms is important for evaluating their environmental impact and to assess potential food safety risks to human health. Objective The current work aimed at developing an in-house method based on single-particle ...
Background Aflatoxin M 1 (AFM 1 ) is found in the milk of cows exposed to feed spoiled by Aspergillus fungi species. These fungi may produce the secondary metabolite aflatoxin B 1 , which is converted in the cow liver by hydroxylation to AFM 1 and is then expressed in milk. AFM 1 is regulated in ...
Background Edible insects may contain arsenic. Analysis of arsenic species is necessary in order to accurately assess arsenic exposure. Objective An analytical method was validated and used to determine and quantitate arsenic species in edible insects. Methods Arsenic species were extracted from ...
Background Mercury intake is caused by eating seafood, such as tuna and other predatory fish species. To reduce the health risks of mercury intake, it is necessary to continuously measure and monitor mercury concentrations at fish farms and markets. We have developed a compact system that can ...
Background The consumption of foods containing amphenicols, a type of antibiotic, is a major concern for human health. A stable and accurate detection method can provide technical support for food-safety monitoring. Objective An effective and efficient method was established for determining ...
Background Antibiotic residues in milk are a well-known hazard in the dairy food chain. Detection methods for these residues, such as nonspecific microbiological inhibitor tests or group-specific receptor tests, are relatively inexpensive, easy to use, and widely applied to ensure food safety. In ...
Background An interlaboratory study was conducted at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Northeast Food and Feed Laboratory (NFFL) and the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) with the purpose to expand FDA Elemental Analysis Manual (EAM) method 4.7 (Inductively Coupled ...
Background Water kefir is a fermented beverage using water, sugar, and cultured microorganism grains as the primary ingredients. Ethanol may be present at varying levels within the final product due to the fermentation process, so it is vital to have a validated method to meet regulatory, quality, ...
Background In response to the growing global need for pesticide residue testing, laboratories must develop versatile analytical methods and workflows to produce scientifically sound results. One of the many challenges faced by food chemists is acquiring suitable pesticide certified reference ...
Background An LC-MS/MS method was developed for determination and confirmation of tilmicosin in bovine, swine, chicken, and turkey tissues (liver, kidney, muscle, and skin/fat) and bovine milk. Objective The method was subjected to single-laboratory validation to establish method performance ...
Background Maple syrup is a sought-after commodity, and used as a condiment and a sweetener. Also, it is an active target of economically motivated adulteration (EMA), similar to other foods such as lemon juice and honey. Objective This study is aimed to detect low cost sugar adulteration in maple ...
Background Monitoring total acidity during beverage production is crucial for quality control (QC). The standard acid–base titration, though widely used, is slow and generates hazardous waste through the use of acid–base indicators. Objective To develop an analysis method for beverage samples to ...
Background Given the recent detection of tetrodotoxin (TTX) in bivalve molluscs but the absence of a full collaborative validation study for TTX determination in a large number of shellfish samples, interlaboratory assessment of method performance was required to better understand current ...
Background Supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) is a fast, versatile, and solvent-efficient automatic extraction method. Despite its advantages, the results of our proficiency tests imply that the applicability assessments of SFE for pesticide residues were insufficient. Objective In this study, as ...
Background Propylene chlorohydrins (PCHs) are formed as byproducts in the reaction between starch and propylene oxide (PO). For hydroxypropylated (HP) starch applications in food, Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food additives (JECFA) set the maximum allowed total propylene chlorohydrin (PHC-t) ...
Background Oxytetracycline (OTC), chlortetracycline (CTC), and tetracycline (TC) are approved antibiotics used to treat bacterial infections in cattle. To ensure human food safety, a tolerance has been established for the sum of these three TC residues as 12 parts per million in bovine kidney in ...
