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Chasing Pollutants Concerning Public Health: From Food to Smoke
Summary
This analytical chemistry review covers sample preparation methods for detecting trace-level pollutants across diverse matrices including food, biological tissues, plants, and environmental samples. While microplastics are one category of pollutant addressed in such analytical workflows, this paper focuses broadly on multi-pollutant detection methodology rather than microplastics specifically, making it only tangentially relevant.
Sample preparation is the key step in determining low concentrations of pollutants from food, biological, plant, industrial, and environmental matrices [...]
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