About the Special Issue

Latin America produces food for its own consumption and also for much of the world. Brazil, for example, is considered “the barn of the world” because it has high-tech agriculture and fertile land that has yet to be used. Foods such coffee, orange, corn, soybean, sugar, cocoa, wheat, meat (chicken, pork and beef), fruits have high production in Latin America. Thus, it is very important to know the profile of contaminants and essential substances in these foods from all countries, especially those major food exporters such as Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile among many others. It is of paramount importance for food safety and, fundamentally, for a safe food more research from the farm till the chemical analysis. All research regarding the productive chain (mitigation, biofortification, stresses, application of pesticides and fertilizers and other) or new insights on chemical analysis (sample preparation, determinations by elemental or molecular techniques, separations by Liquid or Gas Chromatography (HPLC and CG), data analysis and other) are important information for the countries of production and those who import these foods. In addition, analysis of non or sub explored foods can bring a tone of knowledge about functional foods and their potential use in medicine. Scientific articles that deal with the improved analysis of foods originating in all Latin America are welcome!

Keywords: food safety; Latin America food; trace analysis; quality control; chemical analysis

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