Current Role of Mass Spectrometry in the Determination of Pesticide Residues in Food
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Hernández Mesa, MaykelEditorial
MDPI
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Pesticides Mass spectrometry Single-residue methods Mega-methods Non-targeted analysis Ion mobility-mass spectrometry
Date
2022-06-09Referencia bibliográfica
Hernández-Mesa, M.; Moreno-González, D. Current Role of Mass Spectrometry in the Determination of Pesticide Residues in Food. Separations 2022, 9, 148. [https://doi.org/10.3390/separations9060148]
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MCIN/AEI IJC2019-040989-I; Research Program of the University of JaenAbstract
The extensive use of pesticides represents a risk to human health. Consequently, legal frameworks
have been established to ensure food safety, including control programs for pesticide residues.
In this context, the performance of analytical methods acquires special relevance. Such methods
are expected to be able to determine the largest number of compounds at trace concentration levels
in complex food matrices, which represents a great analytical challenge. Technical advances in
mass spectrometry (MS) have led to the development of more efficient analytical methods for the
determination of pesticides. This review provides an overview of current analytical strategies applied
in pesticide analysis, with a special focus on MS methods. Current targeted MS methods allow the
simultaneous determination of hundreds of pesticides, whereas non-targeted MS methods are now
applicable to the identification of pesticide metabolites and transformation products. New trends
in pesticide analysis are also presented, including approaches for the simultaneous determination
of pesticide residues and other food contaminants (i.e., mega-methods), or the recent application of
techniques such as ion mobility–mass spectrometry (IM–MS) for this purpose.