
To measure a method’s environmental friendliness and its sustainability, one must consider its productivity and analytical performance.

To measure a method’s environmental friendliness and its sustainability, one must consider its productivity and analytical performance.

Ionic liquids (IL) are a very versatile tool for natural product and food analysis. When combined with moieties with different functional groups, ILs can be tuned to obtain extraction media with different properties and selectivity.

Special Issues
A simple, automated, and fast method to quantify complex odorants in foods is described using stir-bar sorptive extraction (SBSE) combined with fast enantioselective GC–MS analysis. The total analytical method takes only 30 minutes and does not require any sample pretreatment.