Advances in the Analysis of Challenging Food Contaminants: Nanoparticles, Bisphenols, Mycotoxins, and Brominated Flame Retardants

Abstract Nanoparticles, bisphenols, mycotoxins, and brominated flame retardants are highly relevant species toxicologically that can contaminate food and drink through intentional administration or unintentionally from their migration from diverse sources such as packaging materials, cooking utensils, environmental contamination, and fungal activity. Although seemingly different, these contaminants share the common feature of being difficult to isolate and analyze in food. This chapter highlights the different challenges associated with the determination of the study toxins in food and drink and discusses current methods of analysis as well as methods and strategies to overcome the analytical challenges.