New Trends in Sample Preparation Techniques for Food Analysis

Dr Oscar Nunez studied chemistry at the University of Barcelona where he also received his PhD in 2004. He worked as visiting researcher for half a year in the development of on-line preconcentration methods micellar electrokinetic chromatography (MEKC) at University of Hyogo (Japan) in collaboration with Professor Terabe (father of MEKC technique). Starting from October 2005, he joined Kyoto Institute of Technology (Japan) as a two-year post-doc researcher working with Professor Tanaka developing monolithic silica capillary columns under a fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. In November 2007 he joined again University of Barcelona working in the Chromatography, Capillary Electrophoresis and Mass Spectrometry (CCEMS) research group. Currently, he is a Serra Hunter Professor at Department of Analytical Chemistry since December 2014. He has more than seventy scientific papers and book chapters to his name, and he is editor of one book on LC-MS/MS. He has extensive experience in the development of capillary electrophoresis and liquid chromatography methods coupled to tandem mass spectrometry (CE-MS/MS and LC-MS/MS), as well as sample treatment procedures for environmental and food sample analysis. His major research areas also include the characterization, classification and authentication of natural products in the prevention of frauds.

Preface; Novel Sorbent Materials for Off-Line & On-Line Solid-Phase Extraction Applied to Food Analysis; Application of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers to Solid-Phase Extraction in Food Analysis; Turbulent Flow Chromatography in Food Analysis; Quechers Procedures in Food Sample Preparation ; Microextraction Methods in Food Sample Preparation; Ionic Liquids in Food Analysis Sample Preparation; Supercritical Fluid Extraction (SFE) for Rapid & Efficient Sample Preparation, with a Special Focus on Food Contaminants; References; Index.