Analysis of Nanoplastics and Microplastics in Food

The ever-increasing use of plastics has created areas of floating plastic waste in the oceans. Nanoplastics and microplastics have made their way into food, particularly marine organisms This book describes the fate of microplastics and nanoplastics in the environment and discusses sampling and analysis methods to detect and identify them.

Leo M.L. Nollet received M.S. (1973) and Ph.D. (1978) degrees in Biology from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Dr. Nollet is the editor and associate editor of numerous books. He edited for M. Dekker, New York- now CRC Press of Francis and Taylor Group- the first, second, and third edition of Food Analysis by HPLC and Handbook of Food Analysis. The last edition is a three-volume book. He edited also Handbook of Water Analysis (first and second edition) and Chromatographic Analysis of the Environment 3rd Edition (CRC Press). With F. Toldrá he co-edited 2 books published in 2006 and 2007: Advanced Technologies for Meat Processing (CRC Press) and Advances in Food Diagnostics (Blackwell Publishing- now Wiley). With M. Poschl he co-edited Radionuclide Concentrations in Foods and the Environment also published in 2006 (CRC Press). He was co-editing with Y.H. Hui and other colleagues several books: Handbook of Food Product Manufacturing (Wiley, 2007), Handbook of Food Science, Technology and Engineering (CRC Press, 2005), Food Biochemistry and Food Processing, first and second edition, (Blackwell Publishing - Wiley, 2006 and 2012), and Handbook of Fruits and Vegetable Flavors (Wiley, 2010).

Khwaja Salahuddin Siddiqi, PhD, earned his PhD in 1973 from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India; his thesis was on the Complexes of Group (IV) Elements. He also earned his undergraduate degrees at Aligarh Muslim University. He conducted postdoctural research at the University of Barcelona, Spain, and the University of Provence, Marseille, France. He has taught numerous graduate level courses including Spectroscopy, Bioinorganic Chemistry, Solid State Chemistry, and Organometallic Chemistry. He has guided the Ph.D. work of 22 students. His research areas include Nano Chemistry, Organoborate Chemistry, Organometallic Chemistry, and Bioinorganic Chemistry, and he has published over 160 papers and has presented at 120 national and international conferences.