Review on contaminants in edible oil and analytical technologies

Abstract

Edible oil is an important part of the human daily diet, which is popular in the food industry. People are paying increasing attention to the safety of edible oil as flawed oils have caused enormous international losses and posed a huge threat to consumer health issues. Therefore, it is necessary and important to analyze the quality and safety of oil product. In the present study, we particularly reviewed recent literature on analysis of emerging pollutants in edible oil including mycotoxins, pesticide residues and heavy metals. In addition, a series of emerging analytical technologies (HPLC, LC-MS/MS and GC-MS) for these contaminants were also summarized in this paper.

Keywords

• Edible oil
• Mycotoxins
• Pesticide residues
• Heavy metals
• Analytical method