Sample Handling and Trace Analysis of Pollutants: Innovations to Determine Organic Contaminants, Second Edition reviews the latest technologies and challenges in trace analysis of environmental pollutants, from selecting the right approach to tips for performing analytic procedures and measuring and reporting results. Written by internationally renowned experts in environmental analysis from 5 continents and edited by leaders in the field, this completely updated and revised volume presents the latest techniques developed over the past 10 years, such as high-resolution mass spectrometry, biosensors and imaging techniques. Important tools for problem-solving in the determination of environmental pollutants are also discussed.Chapters cover emerging pollutants in the environment, such as nanomaterials, microplastics, metabolites and/or transformation products and antimicrobial resistances. Specific sections describe field sampling techniques and sample preparation in environmental matrices: air, water, soil, sediment and biota, focus on passive samplers, cover the determination of these environmental contaminants based on analytical techniques, such as the use of gas chromatography and liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry, immunoassays, and biosensors as well as advanced analytical methods such as imaging techniques.
Section 1. Field Sampling Techniques, Sample Preparation and Extraction
1. Analytical methods for determining organic compounds in air
2. Passive samplers for the analysis of organic compounds in water samples
3. Extraction of organic contaminants from grab and composite water samples
4. Separation, clean-up and recoveries of trace organic contaminants from soils and sediment
5. Separation, clean-up and recoveries of trace organic pollutants from biota
6. Handling of food samples
Section 2. Trace analysis of organic pollutants
7. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry
8. Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry
9. Suspected and non-target high resolution mass spectrometry
10. Imaging techniques. The increasing role of imaging mass spectrometry
11. Immunoassays of organic contaminants
12. Fundamentals and applications of biosensors for environmental analysis
13. The role of nanomaterials and nanoparticles as analytical tools
14. Smartphone as a Portable Detector, Analytical Device, or Instrument Interface
Section 3. Quality Assurance, Reference Materials, Chemometrics and Data Dissemination
15. Certified reference materials for the quality control of measurements in environmental monitoring
16. Standard reference materials for the determination of trace organic constituents in environmental samples
17. Guidelines to establish the quality assurance. Analytical parameters, Inter-laboratory studies
18. Data dissemination and repositories
19. Interpretation of environmental data using chemometrics
20. Determination of the uptake and accumulation of emerging contaminants in soil and plant treated with wastewater
21. Endocrine disrupting compounds
22. Current issues on micro- and nanoplastics
23. Determination of nanomaterials in the environment
24. Detection of antibiotic resistance genes (ARG) in water and sludges
25. Identification of metabolites and/or degradation products of environmental contaminants
26. The anthropic fingerprinting in wastewater: Wastewater based-epidemiology
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