Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are major environmental concern due to their
persistence, long-range transportability, bio-accumulation and potentially adverse effects on …

Brominated flame retardants (BFRs), frequently applied to industrial and household products
to make them less flammable, are highly persistent in the environment and cause multi …

Environmental mass spectrometry is an important branch of science because it provides
many of the data that underlie policy decisions that can directly influence the health of …

The Stockholm Convention (SC) on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) is a global treaty
under the United Nation Environmental Program with the aims to protect human health and …

In this paper, high-resolution nano-electrospray ionization-trapped ion mobility spectrometry
coupled to mass spectrometry (nESI-TIMS-MS) is used for the study of hydroxylated …

The present book, Advanced Gas Chromatography in Food Analysis, has the main intent of
providing in-depth and broad information to all interested in the analysis of foods using gas …

Halogenated organic contaminants, including legislated and potential persistent organic
pollutants and their precursors, represent a major environmental concern due to their …

The polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), a class of brominated flame retardants
(BFRs), are food contaminants of animal origin. Interest in food matrices analysis is growing …

A new method for rapid determination of 73 target organic environmental contaminants
including 18 polychlorinated biphenyls, 16 organochlorinated pesticides, 14 brominated …

The analysis of brominated flame retardants (BFRs) commonly relies on the use of gas
chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (GC-MS) operating in electron ionization (EI) …