Recent Advances in Food Analysis (RAFA)

Recent EU legislation on PFAS shifts from monitoring individual compounds toward managing them as a chemical class.

Nicolai Zederkopff explores chromatography’s role to help implement the maximum tolerable level (MTL) framework for food adulteration to translate analytical results into compliance decisions.

Laura Righetti explains why quantification, not instrumentation, still keeps mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) out of routine food safety testing.

Anneli Kruve reports that toxicity predictions from MS2-derived molecular fingerprints outperform spectral-similarity methods in nontarget screening of food.

At the Recent Advances in Food Analysis (RAFA) conference in 2024, LCGC International sat down with Stefan van Leuwen of Wageningen Food Safety Research to discuss his research, which addresses emerging challenges in circular food production, focusing on the risks posed by pollutants when waste and by-products are repurposed in food systems.

As part of our RAFA 2024 coverage, we interviewed Rudolf Krska of BOKU University about his research on food safety, specifically regarding using analytical methods to mycotoxins and other secondary metabolites in plants and foods.

During RAFA 2024, Michel Suman of Barilla Spa and Catholic University Sacred Heart talked with us about his food safety and authenticity research, focusing on contaminants, adulterants, and authenticity markers in food processing.

Giorgia Purcaro from the University of Liège was interviewed at RAFA 2024 by LCGC International on the benefits of modern multidimensional GC methods to analyze mineral oil aromatic hydrocarbons (MOAH) and mineral oil saturated hydrocarbons (MOSH).

Michael Sulyok of the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences discusses a novel “dilute and shoot” LC–MS/MS technique to analyze mycotoxins in grain products.