Open AccessOverview of the American Chemical Society Symposium on Metals and Trace Elements in Food Safety, Health, and Food Quality
Author(s) -
Benjamin W. Redan,
Lauren S. Jackson
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of agricultural and food chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.203
H-Index - 297
eISSN - 1520-5118
pISSN - 0021-8561
DOI - 10.1021/acs.jafc.0c01763
Subject(s) - trace (psycholinguistics) , food safety , agriculture , government (linguistics) , human health , quality (philosophy) , political science , library science , environmental health , microbiology and biotechnology , engineering , chemistry , food science , medicine , history , computer science , biology , archaeology , philosophy , linguistics , epistemology
A symposium was held at the 2019 American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall National Meeting in San Diego, CA, U.S.A., entitled "Metals Trace Elements in Food Safety, Health, and Food Quality". The 2 day symposium was sponsored by the Division of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (AGFD) and co-sponsored by the Division of Agrochemicals (AGRO). This symposium was convened to broadly cover advances in the detection of metals/trace elements in food and our understanding of how metals and trace elements impact food safety, food quality, toxicology, and human nutrition. There were 21 presentations from speakers from academia, government, and industry. This introduction provides a brief summary of the presentations and serves as a record of the symposium proceedings.