title: Liquid phase microextraction applications in food analysis.
abstract: Over the last years, liquid-phase microextraction (LPME) in its different application modes (single drop microextraction, dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction and hollow fiber-LPME) has been increasingly applied for the extraction of both inorganic and organic analytes from different matrices. Its advantages over conventional extraction procedures (simplicity, effectiveness, rapidity and low consumption of organic solvents) has also attracted its application in the complex food analysis field, in which it has clearly provided good and challenging results. A comprehensive review dealing with those articles published since its introduction till the end of March 2011 is presented, offering also a critical vision of the analytical potential of LPME for the analysis of foods.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Química Analítica, Nutrición y Bromatología, Facultad de Química, Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), Avenida Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez, s/n°, 38206 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.
authors.forename: María
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Asensio-Ramos
authors.forename: Lidia M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Ravelo-Pérez
authors.forename: Miguel Ángel
authors.initials: MÁ
authors.lastname: González-Curbelo
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hernández-Borges
mesh_terms: D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D005504:Food Analysis; D059627:Liquid Phase Microextraction; D053719:Tandem Mass Spectrometry