Food adulteration is one of the most serious problems regarding food safety and quality
worldwide. Besides misleading consumers, it poses a considerable health risk associated …

Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometry (MS) is one of the
most widely used techniques in proteomics to achieve structural identification and …

Food allergy remains a public health, business, and regulatory challenge. Risk analysis
(RA) and risk management (RM) of food allergens are of great importance and analysis for …

Type I collagen is the most abundant protein of the human body. Due to its favourable
properties, collagen extracted from animal tissues is adopted to manufacture a wide range of …

We report on a sensitive and fast quantitative MALDI-MS/MS method used to assess saffron
authenticity by direct analysis through the determination of picrocrocin as the saffron …

Seafood is considered one of the main food allergen sources by the European Food Safety
Authority (EFSA). It comprises several distinct groups of edible aquatic animals, including …

The exceptional hypoxia tolerance of the goldfish heart may be achieved through the
activation of an alternative mechanism recruiting the first product of the anaerobic glycolysis …

The coordination of amino acids ortho-tyrosine (o-Tyr, 1) and trans-4-hydroxyproline (HPro,
2) with the biologically important trivalent metal ions Al (III) and Fe (III) in aqueous solution …

Herein we describe a rapid, simple, and reliable method for the quantitative analysis and
molecular species fingerprinting of saffron (Crocus sativus L.) by direct MS and MS/MS …

Citrus aurantium is a widespread tree in the Mediterranean area, and it is mainly used as
rootstock for other citrus. In the present study, a vacuum infiltration centrifugation procedure …