According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, food safety is
defined as “assurance that food will not cause harm to the consumer which is prepared …

This tutorial provides an overview of the validation of qualitative analytical methods, with
particular focus on their main performance parameters, for both univariate and multivariate …

This article considers current trends and challenges in qualitative analysis. The focus is not
on classification methods per se, but rather on their general features, such as the way the …

Background Detecting food fraud or confirming the authenticity, which falls within the
general concept of food integrity, is a complex problem. Modern analytics platforms are used …

Background Accurate quantification of DNA using quantitative real-time PCR at low levels is
increasingly important for clinical, environmental and forensic applications. At low …

Nanoscience and nanotechnology have emerged in recent years as revolutionary trends in
almost all fields of activity. Their impact has taken place in the analytical science, too. Firstly …

The use of carbon nanoparticles is shown for the detection and identification of different
Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli virulence factors (vt1, vt2, eae and ehxA) and a 16S …

The present manuscript makes an extensive review of the scientific approaches developed
in the last decade involving infrared and Raman spectroscopy combined with chemometrics …

Demands for quality assured measurement are increasing, not only from sectors such as
health care, services and safety, where the human factor is obvious, but also from …

In this study, electrochemical and laser-based spectroscopic methods (LIBS) are proposed
as screening methods that are quicker, more selective and more effective than any current …