Abstract
ABSTRACT Targeted liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) is a robust and reliable tool in quantitative analysis of pesticide residues in food samples. However, these methods have been only targeted to a predefined set of pesticides. Many other unexpected pesticides and/or their (bio)transformation products present in food matrices that may be harmful to consumers need to be discovered for food safety monitoring purpose. Therefore, non-targeted screening approaches using liquid chromatography coupled to high-resolution mass spectrometry (LC-HRMS) have gained much attention in food monitoring recently. However, the development and implementation of non-targeted screening of potential pesticides and their (bio)transformation products in food samples are particularly challenging due to the inherent sample complexity and large quantity of MS data. To provide guidance on how to use non-targeted screening approaches for pesticide screening, three different aspects, namely, sample preparation, data acquisition and data processing, encompassed in the workflow of non-targeted screening approaches have been discussed, and current strategies, advances and challenges regarding these three aspects are reviewed. In addition, the recent application of non-targeted screening analysis of pesticide residues and their (bio)transformation products in food samples has been overviewed in this paper.
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