Serena Rizzo is a scientific researcher at Wageningen Food Safety Research, part of Wageningen University & Research (Netherlands), specializing in analytical chemistry and food safety. Her work focuses on the development of advanced LC–HRMS methods, including targeted, suspect, and non-target screening workflows, for the detection and identification of regulated and emerging chemical hazards in food and feed. She holds a PhD in drug discovery and development from the University of Salerno, Italy. Her research contributes to national and EU-level programs aimed at strengthening food safety monitoring through innovative, high-throughput, and data-driven analytical approaches.
Using ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography high resolution tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC–HRMS/MS), researchers at Wageningen Food Safety Research, part of Wageningen University & Research (The Netherlands) identified methyl 2-(sulfo-oxy)benzoate as a novel biomarker that differentiates pharmaceutical from plant-derived salicylic acid in eggs. LCGC International spoke to Serena Rizzo, corresponding author of the paper resulting from this work, about the group’s findings.
