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Environmental Mass Spectrometry: Emerging Contaminants and Current Issues (2010 Review)
Citation:
RICHARDSON, S. D. Environmental Mass Spectrometry: Emerging Contaminants and Current Issues (2010 Review). Analytical Chemistry. American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 82(12):4742-4774, (2010).
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Description:
This biennial review covers developments in environmental mass spectrometry for emerging environmental contaminants over the period of 2008-2009. A few significant references that appeared between January and February 2010 are also included. Analytical Chemistry’s current policy is to limit reviews to a maximum of 250 significant references and to mainly focus on new trends. Even with a more narrow focus, only a small fraction of the quality research publications could be discussed. This was especially true this year with the continued explosive growth in the pharmaceutical area, where my entire allotment of 250 references could have been used in this one section alone. As a result, as with the previous review on environmental mass spectrometry in 2008, this review will not be comprehensive, but will highlight new areas and discuss representative papers in the areas of focus. I write a similar review article on water analysis, which also focuses on emerging contaminants. That review article is somewhat different from this one, in that it focuses only on water contaminants, and includes additional analytical methods beyond mass spectrometry. This review on environmental mass spectrometry focuses on methods and occurrence/fate studies utilizing mass spectrometry, but also includes the study of air, soil/sediment, and biological samples, in addition to water.
