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Description

Deteriorating environmental conditions, mainly caused by human activities, are a major health risk. Pollution, environmental degradation, deforestation and biodiversity loss are not only affecting ecosystems and climate, but also have serious consequences on the production of safe and quality food and on the population.

At the beginning of the 21st century, the safety of the food we consume and the environment where we live in has become a top priority for consumers and public authorities alike. The Research Group on Food and Environmental Safety (SAMA-UV) is dedicated to research in environmental and food sciences and provides state-of-the-art technology and analytical services for the determination of contaminants and natural compounds, focusing its activities in the areas of environmental health, food quality and safety as well as risk assessment and human exposure studies. The pollutants with which the research group works and for which it has advanced analytical methodology include both regulated and emerging pollutants and their degradation products (ex. pesticides, drugs of abuse, human and veterinarian medicines, perfluorinated compounds, flame retardants, etc…).

The results of this activity has enabled the research group to interact and collaborate with other national and European teams researching similar topics through the attendance and paper presentation at numerous international meetings and conferences and articles in scientific journals. As a whole, the research activity carried out has generated 15 book chapters and more than 180 publications in international CSI journals with a high impact rate such as Analytical Chemistry, TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, Journal of Chromatography, Analytica Chimica Acta, Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, Food Chemistry, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, etc.

The group’s research is mainly funded through research projects within the framework of grants for R&D projects at both regional and national level, and also within the framework of various integrated actions with the cooperation of other research groups in the European Union. The group also has collaborations and agreements with companies in the food and environmental sector.

Goals CT
  • Monitor the presence of emerging and priority pollutants, their dynamics, distribution and bioavailability in environmental compartments.
  • To assess potential environmental risks caused by the presence of emerging and priority pollutants.
  • Develop methods for environmental forensics and sewage epidemiology.
  • Determine the characterisation of food quality and safety within the framework of food legislation.
Research lines
  • Human health risk assessment

    Advanced analysis. Human diet studies. Integrated risk assessment.

  • Environmental safety

    Study of the presence, transport, fate and bioavailability of emerging and priority pollutants in environmental compartments. Environmental risk assessment. Development of methods for environmental forensics and sewage epidemiology.

  • Food quality and safety

    Advanced chemical analysis. Characterisation of food quality and safety within the framework of food legislation. Foodomics: profiling and fingerprinting techniques for food characterisation, authenticity and origin characterisation.

Management
  • PICO GARCIA, YOLANDA
  • PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat
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Non-UV research staff

Collaborators

  • Vicente Andreu Pérez - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
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  • PICO GARCIA, YOLANDA
    PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat
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Associated structure
Desertification Research Centre
Contact group details
Research Group on Food and Enviromental Safety (SAMA)

Burjassot/Paterna Campus

Carretera Moncada-Náquera, Km 4,5

46113 Moncada (Valencia)

+34 963 543 092

Geolocation

www.uv.es/samauv

yolanda.pico@uv.es

Contact people
  • PICO GARCIA, YOLANDA
  • PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat
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