Mass Spectrometry for the Analysis of Pesticide Residues and their Metabolites

Provides an overview of the use of mass spectrometry (MS) for the analysis of pesticide residues and their metabolites.<br /><br /> <ul> <li>Presents state of the-art MS techniques for the identification of pesticides and their transformation products in food and environment</li> <li>Covers important advances in MS techniques including MS instrumentation and chromatographic separations (e.g. UPLC, HILIC, comprehensive GCxGC) and applications</li> <li>Illustrates the main sample preparation techniques (SPE, QuEChERS, microextraction) used in combination with MS for the analysis of pesticides</li> <li>Describes various established and new ionization techniques as well as the main MS platforms, software tools and mass spectral libraries</li> </ul>