CHAIRS

• Laura Borghese
  University of Brescia, Italy
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• Laura Eleonora Depero
  University of Brescia, Italy
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DESCRIPTION

Total reflection X-ray fluorescence (TXRF) is becoming an important tool in the field of elemental analysis of food. Fast and sensitive analytical techniques, able to detect major and trace elements, are required as a result of the increasing demand on multi-elemental information and product screening. TXRF is suitable for elemental analysis of food offering some advantages: it provides simultaneous multi-elemental identification in a wide dynamic range of concentrations, several different matrices may be analyzed, good precision and accuracy may be be obtained. Applications of TXRF in the field of elemental analysis of foodstuffs have be en recently reviewed. The focus is placed on the applications within food quality monitoring of drinks, beverages, vegetables, fruits, cereals, animal derivatives and dietary supplements, providing a critical outlook on the developments required to transfer these methods from research to the industrial and analytical laboratories contexts.