title: Advancements of molecularly imprinted polymers in the food safety field.
abstract: Molecularly imprinted technology (MIT) has been widely employed to produce stable, robust and cheap molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) materials that possess selective binding sites for recognition of target analytes in food, such as pesticides, veterinary drugs, mycotoxins, illegal drugs and so on. Because of high selectivity and specificity, MIPs have drawn great attention in the food safety field. In this review, the recent developments of MIPs in various applications for food safety, including sample preparation, chromatographic separation, sensing, immunoassay etc., have been summarized. We particularly discuss the advancements and limitations in these applications, as well as attempts carried out for their improvement.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Quality Standards & Testing Technology for Agriculture Products, China Agricultural Academy of Science, Beijing 100081, P.R. China. suxiaoou@caas.cn.
authors.forename: Peilong
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Institute of Chemistry, China Academy of Science, Beijing 100190, P.R. China and Institute of New Energy, State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), Beijing 102249, China.
authors.forename: Xiaohua
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.affiliation: Institute of Quality Standards & Testing Technology for Agriculture Products, China Agricultural Academy of Science, Beijing 100081, P.R. China. suxiaoou@caas.cn.
authors.forename: Xiaoou
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Su
authors.affiliation: Institute of Chemistry, China Academy of Science, Beijing 100190, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Tie
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D005506:Food Contamination / Q000032:analysis*; D059022:Food Safety; D054802:Molecular Imprinting; D011108:Polymers
chemical_list: D011108:Polymers